143403 - 'Open With' item for context menu

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(SeaMonkey :: General, enhancement)

Description

[lancer]

An 'Open With' item in the context menu. An item to allow you to choose the
application which the file will be opened with.

Then it could be possible to open files with an application chosen in the
moment, ...a html, if is necessary to open it with a text editor; or an image,
if is necessary to edit it with an image editor.


Example(in Ms Windows):
- right click on a link(...http://www.somesite.com/somepage.html) to open the
context menu.
- click the 'Open With' item
- the open file dialog is opened
- And search a text editor to open the html document (example: Notepad)

Is this a RFE?

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

To UI Design.  I suspect that we won't do this -- the context menus are already
too long....

Comment 2

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

wontfix. We have a context menu implementation that isn't goint to accomodate
this any time soon.

Comment 3

[Bamm Gabriana]

Lancer,

I think the best way to do this (windows only) is to make a sidebar that
contains an ActiveX control that launches the Open With dialog box and
passing the url to it on a drop event. I believe there is no javascript
way to call a Windows API function so this is the best workaround I can
think of. You might need Adam Lock's npmozax.dll plugin.

If someone knows a better way please let me know. :)

Good luck.

Bamm