116073 - Middle-click to open bookmark in new window

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 72361

(SeaMonkey :: Bookmarks & History, defect)

Description

[David M. Karr]

As of a few weeks ago, I was perfectly happy to double-left-click bookmarks to
make them open in a new window.  I prefer to open bookmarks in a new window,
whereas I think the links on the toolbar should, by default, use the current window.

Now, apparently I've lost that ability (opening bookmarks in a new window). 
Double-left-click opens the bookmark in the current window.  In the discussion
of bug 104914, apparently there's some belief that middle-click, or some
variation of it, is now supposed to be the way to open bookmarks in a new
window.  The last comments in this report (from "Jeremy M. Dolan") on 12/16
seems to imply this, and he also suggests I file a bug about "middle click not
opening a new window/tab as it should".

As Jeremy implies, middle-click doesn't appear to do what it's supposed to
(according to him, but I don't know where/how to determine exactly what it's
supposed to do), with or without enabling the "middle-click" flag in "tabbed
browsing" preferences.  This is as of build 2001121909 (I used to be able to
enter this as a bug field, but I don't see that here).

Comment 1

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

not a Bugzilla bug...

Comment 2

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

To blake

Comment 3

[Diego Biurrun]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 93033 ***

Comment 4

[jlarsen]

duped to a dup fixing for simplicity sake

Comment 5

[jlarsen]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 72361 ***

Comment 6

[Diego Biurrun]

Not that it makes a big difference, but the new dupe is indeed older

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