Comments on: Understanding context in your New Tab

By: Remedies

Remedies — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 18:08:01 +0000

Adam – its the same story here, such a solution would be an unnecessary memory hog.
thanks but no thanks

By: JustinCarter

JustinCarter — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 23:02:43 +0000

This stuff is in IE8 Beta 2… what a coincidence :)

By: Adam Nemeth

Adam Nemeth — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 23:36:23 +0000

Well, I always use my machine’s performance – mostly RAM – at the edge: like, having around 40 pages open, I usually close my IM windows once a day, that means over 20 or 30 on a normal weekday…

For me, such a solution would be an unnecessary memory hog, since I mostly can type what I want.

By: ThomasHansen

ThomasHansen — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 16:34:34 +0000

I love the Opera thing where they have the “fast dial” or what it’s called in fact which are “special bookmarks” which will be displayed in a table style when you open up a new tab…

By: dshaw

dshaw — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 15:43:37 +0000

I usually just do a Google search directly and click through the map link. I’d forgotten about holding down the alt key while using the search box. Thanks @dave1010.

I thought there used to be an option to have all searches automatically open in a new window. I fished around prefs for a minute and couldn’t find it. …or maybe that was a behavior added by an extension I used to run.

By: tbroyer

tbroyer — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 14:43:50 +0000

Isn't it looking a bit like IE8 Activities? (well, what dave1010 describes would be, and I agree 100% with him about this being a better way for such contextual uses; for other uses, either an IE7-like or Opera-like behavior would be fine)

By: dave1010

dave1010 — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 14:12:13 +0000

I agree with frenchStudent. While this looks nice, surely everything you do in a new tab, you can also do in the current tab. I use CyberSearch, which makes the awesome bar do searches. Pressing Alt+Enter from either the awesome bar or the search bar opens the result in a new tab anyway.

As for the context sensitive text selection stuff, shouldn’t I be able to select an address, right click and select “view map”. Same with calendar entries.

By: PaulArmstrong

PaulArmstrong — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 13:47:46 +0000

All this is explaining is that when you open a blank window, you want a personalized home/portal page. This is particularly not useful for me, since 99% of the time when I open a new tab, I’m typing in a new address in the address bar. Searching can be done by hitting the TAB key once and popping me over to the search input in the top of the browser.

By: frenchStudent

frenchStudent — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 13:18:31 +0000

I don’t understand why adding a new search location to the page. When you open a new tab, the focus is given to the awesome bar ! We can improve the awesome bar to recognize addresses, events and such, but adding another awesome bar inside the new tab is just terribly useless, isn’t it ?