134939 - to be a link or not to be... that´s the right click question...

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 23485

(SeaMonkey :: Location Bar, enhancement)

Description

[mike lima]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.8+)
Gecko/20020222
BuildID:    2002022203

If you look at the bottom of the page above you will see something that can be
improved...

At the bottom of the page there is a link

http://msdn.microsoft.com/developer/downloads/files/
40comupd.htm. 

that link is written in two lines, as above but is not shown as a link.
So you will have to do 2 copy and paste and to go to taht URL.

So, 3 things could be done by you guys...

1) put a box on preferences where one can turn on all links to be a link even if
no one puts it as a link  or

2) give mozilla the ability to read the clipboard and see that link in two
lines, converting it to a one line when one issues a CONTROL V on address line

3) give an option on right click, as GOTO ADDRESS "BLA BLA"  as the one which
says SEARCH GOOGLE for "bla bla".

think about that as your homework... :-)

regards,




Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.go to the URL...
2.
3.

Actual Results:  boring...

Expected Results:  coolness!

nothing to say...

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

This feature request is already filed (bugs exist covering all three approaches).

And a webmaster who gives <a> a target but not an href should be shot on sight...

Comment 2

[Jesse Ruderman]

2) bug 23485 browser window should strip newlines from url pastes
3) bug 10080 [RFE] Recognition of highlighted text as URL

I don't see a bug on #1, but it's a bad idea for the same reason as #3: it would
increase the number of non-hyperlinked urls in web pages because web authors
would forget to put in hrefs.

Comment 3

[Jesse Ruderman]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 23485 ***