868282 - "Open link in New Tab" does not work in HTML form text inputs

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Firefox :: Menus, enhancement)

Description

[t8av]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:20.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/20.0
Build ID: 20130409194949

Steps to reproduce:

I was reading text in an HTML textarea.

In that textarea there was a URL which I was trying to access using menu "Open link in New Tab".



Actual results:

When selecting the URL, I could not find the menu item "Open link in New Tab".



Expected results:

"Open link in New Tab" should be available to access URL's everywhere in the  HTML page, including textarea, form inputs, etc'.

Comment 1

[t8av]

This Firefox limitation is very annoying and cases me to waste a lot of time in copying URL'S to the navigation toolbar.

Comment 2

[[:Aleksej]]

AFAIK, normal text areas don't have URLs linkified.  Is it a non-linkified URL, or is it a custom text editor?

Comment 3

[t8av]

(In reply to Aleksej [:Aleksej] from comment #2)
> AFAIK, normal text areas don't have URLs linkified.  Is it a non-linkified
> URL, or is it a custom text editor?

non-linkified URL

Comment 4

[David Baron :dbaron: (⌚️UTC-4, no longer working on Mozilla)]

The code for this stuff lives in the Firefox UI (though it really shouldn't).

I'm also not sure we should linkify URLs in text inputs.

Comment 5

[Tiziana Sellitto [:tiziana]]

In the w3c spec http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/forms.html#the-textarea-element
seems that only plaintext content is accepted in textarea element

Comment 6

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

As dbaron said, this is a pure frontend thing.

Comment 7

[[:Aleksej]]

It currently works for selection in ordinary non-editable text: bug 907733 comment 2.

Comment 8

[Samuel Bronson]

(In reply to [:Aleksej] from comment #7)
> It currently works for selection in ordinary non-editable text: bug 907733
> comment 2.

Yes, hence the complaint.

Also, the similar 'Search $engine for "$selection"' menu item works fine in textual form fields; I would have expected them to work under the same conditions (except for "Open link in New Tab" only working on URLs or links, obviously).  As such, I think this is actually a defect report (the behaviour is inconsistent).

Comment 9

[Michael Tops]

Attachment: same problem

Thanks from firscesrairi1983.