213908 - make ctrl-enter and alt-enter on bookmarks in bookmarks sidebar open in new tabs

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, defect)

Description

[Christian Jones]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5b) Gecko/20030723 Mozilla Firebird/0.6
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5b) Gecko/20030723 Mozilla Firebird/0.6

Selecting a bookmark in the bookmarks sidebar does not have a keyboard shortcut
to open bookmark in new tab.  The right-click menu gives this option, but
ctrl-enter (which works on links in a page) and alt-enter (which works in the
location bar or search bar) opens the bookmark in the current tab.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.  Visit a web page and add bookmark (say, by typing ctrl-D).
2.  Open the bookmarks toolbar (ctrl-b) and give focus to the list of bookmarks.
(With the mouse, tab, or shift-tab).
3.  Select any bookmark (using the arrow keys)
4.  Type ctrl-enter or alt-enter.

Actual Results:  
Bookmark opens in current tab of current window.

Expected Results:  
Either ctrl-tab or alt-tab (or both, I suppose) should make bookmark open page
in a new tab of the current window.

Comment 1

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

--> enhancement
--> NEW
--> tweak summary

Comment 2

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

taking QA contact, sorry about the bugspam

Comment 3

[Yannick Copin]

A middle-click on a bookmark of the bookmarks sidebar should also open the link
in a new tab (Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113)

Comment 4

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

Ctrl-Click and middle-click both WFM for opening in new tabs on WinXP.

Comment 5

[Wladimir Palant]

Can't confirm this: Ctrl-Click and middle-click both open the bookmark in the
current tab instead of opening a new one.
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113

Comment 6

[Wladimir Palant]

Sorry, I didn't notice that this bug is for Firefox. Ignore my previous post.

Comment 7

[Christian Jones]

WFM (now) in Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8a2)
Gecko/20040525 Firefox/0.8.  Probably fixed when updated from later Mozilla
main.  Mark as FIXED?

Comment 8

[José Jeria]

Also WFM on XP, marking as such, 

please reopen if you can reproduce this with a nightly build and a fresh profile.

Comment 9

[Jesse Ruderman]

WFM with ctrl+click but not with ctrl+enter.  Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows
NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8a2) Gecko/20040622 Firefox/0.8.0+

Reopening.

Comment 10

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

This is not a feature request, it's an inconsistencey that we should fix. 

Comment 11

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

sorry for bugspam, long-overdue mass reassign of ancient QA contact bugs, filter on "beltznerLovesGoats" to get rid of this mass change

Comment 12

[(mostly gone) XtC4UaLL [:xtc4uall]]

ctrl+enter works, alt+enter not using Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9b4pre) Gecko/2008020708 Firefox/3.0.0.0 ID:2008020708

Comment 13

[Carlos Alén Silva]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.4) Gecko/20100503 Firefox/3.6.4

ctrl+enter works, alt+enter doesn't.

Comment 14

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

Indeed, Ctrl/Cmd+Enter works now. Alt+Enter for this wouldn't make sense in a keyboard context.