172071 - enable URL's within text that do not have an "<a href=...></a>" tag

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 10080

(SeaMonkey :: General, enhancement)

Description

[Shawn Neumann]

I often find myself cutting an pasting URL's from the content of a page where
the no html encoding has been applied.  Often this is in plain text environments
or in places where HTML encoding has been disabled (some forums operate in such
a fashion).

My suggestion would be to add a menu option to open in a new tab/window when
right clicking on text which appears to be a URL.  I believe Mail/News is
currently sensing the nature of a url ref within a plain text document.  This
would work differently in that it would not be appropriate to change the text to
appear as a URL as in Mail/News, however simply give the option open the
apparent url to reduce the steps involved in opening a new tab/window and then
cutting and pasting the URL over.

Comment 1

[Chris Lyon]

>right clicking on text which appears to be a URL.

The question is, how does Mozilla know what text is a URL and what isn't.
Is "slashdot.org" a URL?  What about local files?  

->enhancement

Comment 2

[Shawn Neumann]

Mozilla currently does this in Mail/News.  If you create an e-mail with a URL in
it and send it without converting it to a link, Mozilla adds the <a href> tag to
the content:

<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.url.com">http://www.url.com</a>

it might be possible to use the same alogrithm as what is currently be used in
Mail/News.

Comment 3

[Christian :Biesinger (don't email me, ping me on IRC)]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 10080 ***