201795 - Let Google search optionally open in a new tab or window

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Camino Graveyard :: Toolbars & Menus, enhancement)

Description

[Ken W]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030411 Chimera/0.7+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030411 Chimera/0.7+

Please make an option to open the Google search from the toolbar open in a new
tab/window.  I think this would make a lot of sense for usability.  Thanks.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[Jason Barnabe (np)]

Typing in the search then pressing Control-Enter doesn't do it? That's how it
works over here in Windowsland.

Comment 2

[Ken W]

No, nothing happens that way.

Comment 3

[Greg K.]

I think Jason is thinking of Mozilla, not Camino.

Comment 4

[Kathleen :Brade]

-->pinkerton

Comment 5

[Mike Pinkerton (not reading bugmail)]

if you want a new window, can't you just open a new window/tab? you can't type
into the url bar and have it load in a new tab or window, why is the google bar
any different?

Comment 6

[Samuel Sidler (old account; do not CC)]

*** Bug 315772 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 7

[Chris Lawson (gone)]

(In reply to comment #1)
> Typing in the search then pressing Control-Enter doesn't do it? That's how it
> works over here in Windowsland.

Just in case people are wondering, it works in Camino too, but the key is Command, not Control. Cmd-enter in the search field works and respects the "open in background" pref. (Cmd-shift-enter, however, does NOT override that pref, as cmd-shift does for links. Perhaps that should be fixed?)

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Comment 8

[Chris Lawson (gone)]

(In reply to comment #5)
> if you want a new window, can't you just open a new window/tab? you can't type
> into the url bar and have it load in a new tab or window

Actually, by holding command and pressing return, you can. (Same problem with cmd-shift as I mentioned in comment 7, though.)

(To be fair to Pink, this may not have worked in July 2003 when he posted comment 5.)

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Comment 9

[Chris Lawson (gone)]

Reopened so I can close as RESOLVED WORKSFORME per my last two comments.

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