1765045 - Middle mouse clicking on the new tab button should load the primary selection

Status: NEW

(Firefox :: Tabbed Browser, enhancement)

Description

[papush]

Steps to reproduce:

Pressed the middle mouse button on the new tab button in the tab bar.

Actual results:

It opened an empty new tab, as if I left clicked.

Expected results:

The newly opened tab should load what is in my primary selection at the moment of the click, either as a URI if it is a valid one or as a search query, as if it was entered in the URL bar. It would be more intuitive to users who dispose of a primary selection "clipboard" and know how to use it without being disruptive to others, and there are examples of other software behaving this way.

Comment 1

[Ina Popescu, Desktop QA]

I'll set this to NEW and waiting for the developer's opinion about it. Thanks.