Closed Bug 172675 Opened 22 years ago Closed 16 years ago

accel-click (ctrl-click / command-click) on personal toolbar does not open folder as a group of tabs

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(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, enhancement, P3)

2.0 Branch
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RESOLVED WORKSFORME

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(Reporter: richwklein, Unassigned)

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Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.2b) Gecko/20021004 Phoenix/0.3
ctrl-click works in bookmark sidebar, but not in personal toolbar.
Piere, I'm kind of behind on what's the plan for groups. Is this intentional?
Assignee: blaker → chanial
Component: General → Bookmarks
sorry 'bout the typo there, pch. We have context-click open in tabs. Are we also
going to have ctrl+click on folders to open in tabs?
Guess not.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 22 years ago
Resolution: --- → WONTFIX
May I ask why this won't be implemented? I for one would find it very useful to
be able to hold down Ctrl and then click on a bookmarks folder on the toolbar to
open them all as tabs.

In other words, it should work as the "Open in Tabs" menu item at the bottom of
each bookmarks folder.
OS: Windows 98 → All
yes, reopening
Status: RESOLVED → UNCONFIRMED
Resolution: WONTFIX → ---
I second davids comment - and just because of having consistent UI handling
(within sidebar this works - on personal toolbar not) this should be implemented!
Middle clicking BTF works fine. But Ctrl-Click doesn't.
It's strange behavior and must be a bug.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Ever confirmed: true
Target Milestone: --- → After Firebird 1.0
taking QA contact, sorry about the bugspam
QA Contact: asa → mconnor
Both middle and ctrl WFM.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5b) Gecko/20030728 Mozilla
Firebird/0.6.1
Sorry, I'm a newbie to this process, so please be gentle if I screw this up.  

When I Control-click on a link in the main browser window, it opens up a new tab
_in the background_, then loads the contents in this background tab (as desired).

When I Control-click on a bookmark toolbar button, it opens the link in a new
tab, but makes this tab the active tab.  I would prefer that Control-click
always loaded in the background, regardless of whether it is a link in the
browser window or a bookmark toolbar button.

Is this the bug reported here, or should I start a new bug?

Ken

Ken, its probably a separate bug, and if you file it will be WONTFIXed, since
this is how hyatt implemented tabbed browsing in Firebird.  If you want this to
have a pref, you need to convince him.  Keep in mind that Firebird isn't meant
to be incredibly configurable, but more of a "best implementation" design,
meaning different usage patterns may not be supported.
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007 Firebird/0.7

I have the situation that when I *click* the bookmark folder, it automatically
opens *all* links in tabs.  It don't even have to hold Ctrl for it.  This is
ofcourse really annoying if I only want to select one of the links in the
folder.  I have to painstakingly make sure that I click the bookmark folder, go
the link in question while holding my mouse button down, and release it over the
link.  This is so unlike normal pull-down menu behavior that I often forget it
and have to get rid of all the other tabs that get opened.

Is this reported already?  Can't seem to find a reference.  This bug looks like
the closest match.
This is a glaring inconsistency for anyone that starts using tabs much. Any
chance we can get it before 1.0?
Assignee: p_ch → vladimir
Flags: blocking-aviary1.0RC1?
Flags: blocking-aviary1.0RC1? → blocking-aviary1.0RC1-
In Mozilla 1.7 under WinXP if I contrl-click a personal toolbar bookmark  it
does NOT open in a new tab... this is really annoying. Since I don't have a
middle button, I don't know if that will work. The only way to get a personal
toolbar button link to open in a new tab is to right-click it and select the
menu item "Open in New Tab" which is very clumsy. The ctrl-click behavior for
personal toolbar buttons should perfectly mimic the behavior for standard links
in HTML pages.
Severity: normal → enhancement
Hardware: PC → All
Summary: ctrl-click on personal toolbar does not open folder as a group of tabs → accel-click (ctrl-click) on personal toolbar does not open folder as a group of tabs
Assignee: vladimir → vladimir+bm
Attached patch v1Splinter Review
I don't like it either ;)
Assignee: vladimir+bm → bugs.mano
Target Milestone: Future → Firefox1.1
Status: NEW → ASSIGNED
Summary: accel-click (ctrl-click) on personal toolbar does not open folder as a group of tabs → accel-click (ctrl-click / command-click) on personal toolbar does not open folder as a group of tabs
*** Bug 280134 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
My bug was marked as a duplicate  of this big and I'm not sure it is.  Macs with trackpad cannot really 
middle click.  I think there should be an alternate way to single-click "open in tabs" for all computers.  
For macs it could be command-click.  (Not control-click, because that opens a contextual menu.)

What would be better is to enable auto-tabs so you can just set a folder to open in tabs upon normal 
click, and so that those folders look different in the toolbar (like Safari).
Blocks: 282239
No longer blocks: 282239
Blocks: 282239
Priority: -- → P3
Target Milestone: Firefox1.5 → ---
Assignee: bugs.mano → nobody
Status: ASSIGNED → NEW
QA Contact: mconnor → bookmarks
(In reply to Asaf Romano, comment #15)
> Created an attachment (id=170264)
> v1
> 
> I don't like it either ;)

Any chance you could update your patch then? It's been a while...

Thanks!

Prog.

The patch does not apply to Places (Fx3.0 Bookmarks and History system) and there's no chance this makes 2.0 (code freeze for RC1 is today).
Version: unspecified → 2.0 Branch
This is WORKSFORME in Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.4; en-US; rv:1.9.1b3pre) Gecko/20081210 Shiretoko/3.1b3pre (that is, if I'm reading the bug correctly)
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 22 years ago16 years ago
Resolution: --- → WORKSFORME
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