145107 - Link context menu should not refer to current page

Status: NEW

(SeaMonkey :: UI Design, enhancement)

Description

[Christian Schmidt]

The context menu of links is confusing. Currently (in RC2) it contains the
following items:

  Open Link in New Tab
  Open Link in New
  --
  Bookmark This Link
  Save Link Target As ...
  Copy Link Location
  --
  Bookmark This Page
  Save Page As ...
  Send Page
  --
  Properties ...


I think this is confusing.  The first, second and fourth section refers to the
link, but the third part refers to the current page.  I don't know how many
times I have clicked on "Save Page As ..." instead of "Save Link Target As ...".

The term "Page" in the third section is ambiguous - it is not clear to me,
whether it refers to the current page or the linked page. Hence I think the
third section should be totally removed from the context menu for links.


This suggestion was mentioned in n.p.m.ui but didn't yield much (relevant)
discussion:

http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=3CE26B3E.6060604%40ostenfeld.dk

Comment 1

[Jesse Ruderman]

See also bug 144925, same bug for non-linked images.

Comment 2

[Jonas Jørgensen]

The opposite of this bug seems to be bug 144318, Missing webpage navigation on
context menu of "active" webpage content (images, links etc).

Comment 3

[timeless]

uid is being phased out.

Comment 4

[Andreas Kunz]

enhancement (if at all)

Comment 5

[Blake Ross]

Reassigning obsolete bugs to their respective Seamonkey owners (i.e. nobody). 
If you want this fixed for Firefox, change the Product and Component accordingly
and reassign back to me.

Comment 6

[Bruce Davidson]

From comment #5 note that this bug has been fixed in firefox.

Comment 7

[Serge Gautherie (:sgautherie)]

Filter "spam" on "guifeatures-nobody-20080610".