111678 - [HAVE FIX] New modifier key for "Open in new tab"

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(SeaMonkey :: Tabbed Browser, enhancement)

Description

[Stephen D Cope]

Would it be possible to add a shortcut / modifier key to open links in a new tab?

There are already CTRL+click and SHIFT+click shortcuts to open in new windows
and save destination (respectively).

I'm thinking of something like ALT+click to open the link in a new tab. It may
get a little overloaded however.

bug 105620 has a lot of discussion on key shortcuts for *closing* tabs.

Comment 1

[John Morrison]

Select the pref for 
'Navigator'
  -> 'Tabbed Browsing'
    -> 'Open Tabs instead of Windows for ..'
      -> 'middle-click or ctrl-click of links in web pages'

Comment 2

[Stephen D Cope]

No, that's not what I had in mind.

Once you do chose that option, you need to right-click on links to open them in
a new window.

I'm looking for:

click -> open link this window
CTRL+click -> open link in new window
FOO+click -> open link in new tab

Rather than just changing the behaviour of CTRL+click.

Comment 3

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Just a quick note.  Alt-click is a common windowmanager shortcut.  I'd suggest 
something more like ctrl-shift-click.

Comment 4

[John Morrison]

ctrl-shift-click is taken. 

Comment 5

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

spam: set your filter for "SeverusSnape" to avoid the influx of bugmail

changing QA contact of open tabbed browser bugs from blake to me. if this bug
requires a reassignment, however, feel free to change it!

Comment 6

[Hampton Maxwell]

What about Ctrl + middle click?

Comment 7

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

bryner/aaronl, your thoughts here...?

Comment 8

[Jim Crumley]

Attachment: Patch to allow control-middle click to open link in new tab/window

Comment 9

[Zing]

*** Bug 117486 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 10

[Jim Crumley]

I attached a patch that allows control-middle mouse button click on a link open
the link in a new window/tab.  This patch works within in the context of the
current "Tabbed browsing|Open Tabs instead of windows for middle-click of links"
preference.  If that preference is set then middle-click on a link will open a
new tab, while control-middle-click will open a new window.  If that preference
is not set, middle-click will open a new window, while control-middle-click will
open a tab.

This is not a perfect solution, since it doesn't help 1 and 2 button mouse
users, but it seems reasonable since new tabs/windows are still available from
the context menu.

I hacked up this patch before I was aware of this bug, and decided to post it
here instead of the closely related bug 110619 or bug 111678.  

Comment 11

[Jim Crumley]

*** Bug 110619 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 12

[David Hyatt]

Reassigning to new component owner.

Comment 13

[Daniele Dellafiore]

excuse me, but actually i have this shortcut:
click --> this window or new window, depends on HTML
ctrl-click --> open in new tab *always*

this works fine form me since 097.

Comment 14

[Kelly Price]

I like the idea of "Control-Middle-Click" as a shortcut for "Force open in new
tab" personally (I filed a dup bug).  But it looks like we may need something
even more generic to accomidate users tastes and/or OS quirks (Unix -> 2/3,
Windows -> 2, Mac -> 1 mouse button).

Is "Control-Right" and "Control-Shift-Right" taken for anything?  That can
accomidate the Windows users (unless anyone wants to port XFree Middle Mouse
Button emulation semantics (both buttons at once) to Windows).

Comment 15

[Jim Crumley]

Attachment: Updated patch to allow control-middle click to open link in new tab/window

Updated patch for current state of the source.	Removed incompatibilities with
bug  113072, etc.

Comment 16

[Jim Crumley]

Attachment: Another update of patch to allow control-middle click to open link in new tab/window

Comment 17

[Hixie (not reading bugmail)]

jag: could you review the patch or WONTFIX the bug? Cheers!

Comment 18

[Andrew Hagen]

What is the status of this bug? Last comment was in April.

Comment 19

[Jo Hermans]

*** Bug 228553 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 20

[Keld R. Hansen]

I was the one that files the bug #228553 - but:

I don't have a middle-click option on my trackball, so I can't use the patch
(unless there's a new version that also allows ctrl-right-click).

I would really like a way to use the mouse+keyboard to open a link in a new tab
- and one that works for legacy-mice...

So bug #228533 is not resolved - this fix doesn't work (for me).

Comment 21

[Robert Kaiser]

MASS-CHANGE:
This bug report is registered in the SeaMonkey product, but has been without a comment since the inception of the SeaMonkey project. This means that it was logged against the old Mozilla suite and we cannot determine that it's still valid for the current SeaMonkey suite. Because of this, we are setting it to an UNCONFIRMED state.

If you can confirm that this report still applies to current SeaMonkey 2.x nightly builds, please set it back to the NEW state along with a comment on how you reproduced it on what Build ID, or if it's an enhancement request, why it's still worth implementing and in what way.
If you can confirm that the report doesn't apply to current SeaMonkey 2.x nightly builds, please set it to the appropriate RESOLVED state (WORKSFORME, INVALID, WONTFIX, or similar).
If no action happens within the next few months, we move this bug report to an EXPIRED state.

Query tag for this change: mass-UNCONFIRM-20090614