145109 - [RFE] View images in new tab/window

Status: NEW

(SeaMonkey :: UI Design, enhancement)

Description

[shadytrees]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.0rc1) Gecko/20020417
BuildID:    2002041711

When right-clicking a image, you are displayed a menu, one of the options being
"View Image". I think Mozilla should allow the user to choose if he/she wants to
view the image in a new tab/window because if the image loads in the same
tab/window. I propose this because when I use the view image feature I don't
want to click the Back button again or if I do click the Back button, I will
have to login in again into a secure web page.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Move your mouse onto a image.
2.Right click the image.
3.Menu pops up.
4.Hesitate to click "View Image" because you know the image is going to apperar
in the same tab/window.

Actual Results:  Only the image I right clicked appeared in the same tab/window
I was using.

Expected Results:  I propose Mozilla allows the user to display the image in a
new tab/window.

You may want the option to be available in the Preferences.

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

-> GUI features

Comment 2

[u32858]

*** Bug 145621 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3

[Mike Neman]

I'm for this one too.
On a side note: sometime during 0.9.x the FILENAME of the image was taken OUT of
the R-click-menu. (Now it just says "View image" instead of "View image foo.jpg")
Nowadays if I want to know the filename and/or extension/format of the image I
need to view the image on its own.
Removing this was a degradation of functionality IMO. Can't this be reversed please?

Comment 4

[Mike Neman]

Darn. Ignore last comment. I should've found Bug 136110 in Bugzilla search first.
:-/

Comment 5

[Jason M. Abels]

Perhaps instead of adding another selection in the context menu, we could allow
CTRL-"View Image" to open in a new window or tab (depending on the setting of
Preferences->Navigator->Tabbed Browsing->Middle click or control click in a Web
Page.)

Comment 6

[shadytrees]

Perhaps Ctrl-click on an image would open it in a new tab or window (depending
on the preferences).

Comment 7

[Elmar Ludwig]

*** Bug 166300 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 8

[Stefan Borggraefe]

*** Bug 239409 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 9

[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 10

[Serge Gautherie (:sgautherie)]

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