150234 - (modifier)l + click: open in new window, open in new tab; functionalities are mutually exclusive

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 85169

(SeaMonkey :: Tabbed Browser, enhancement)

Description

[Citrus538]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020530
BuildID:    2002053012

There is no way to configure Mozilla to have a (modifier) + click function open
in new window without destroying open in new tab functionality, and vice versa.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
"Edit"->"Preferences"->"Navigator"->"Tabbed Browsing"->"Middle-click or
control-click. . ." check box enables one function or the other exclusively.

Perhaps the shift + click could alwas open in new window while ctrl + click
always opens in new tab, as shift + click to download files is (for me) used a
lot less than opening in new tab/window is.  I mean. . .does anyone go around
just shift+clicking every link they see?  "Right click -> Save Link Target As. .
." is provides the same functionality but is slower.  And since opening in new
tab/window is used more often, we should have those functions more accessible
than downloading.

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

This is a duplicate... (and I personally use shift-click a lot more often than
ctrl-click, since I middle-click to open new windows/tabs).

Comment 2

[Jesse Ruderman]

I like this idea.

Comment 3

[Stefan Borggraefe]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 85169 ***

Comment 4

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

marking verified as a duplicate.

if you decide to reopen this bug, please clarify why.

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