148776 - Middle-clicking links in mail should open new window if none open

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 101955

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, enhancement)

Description

[Rory Hunter]

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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.0+) Gecko/20020519
BuildID:    2002051920

If I left-click a link in an email, a window is opened if there are none already
opened, or the link is opened in an existing window. If I middle click a link in
a mail... nothing happens. 

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Read an email with a URL in/
2. Middle click the link.
3. Wait.

Actual Results:  Nothing!

Expected Results:  Using the middle button during the course of normal browsing
gets very habitual, so I would expect to be able to do something similar in
Mail&News as when browsing. For example, middle clicking a link either loads the
link into a new window or a new tab, depending on the user's prefs. You can
always right-click and select "Open In New Window", but that's klunky, and not
really what I want, as I usually use tabs (which rock!).

Comment 1

[Eric Vaandering (no email)]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 101955 ***

Comment 2

[[e-mail] (gone - use [e-mail] instead)]

verified dup