17751 - Context menus for links in browser

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 15176

(SeaMonkey :: UI Design, enhancement, P3)

Description

[Matthew Tuck [:CodeMachine]]

It would be nice in the browser (and maybe mail-news), to be able to select
text, and right click it, and have the following options.

Open This Page
Open This Page In Another Window
Go To This Newsgroup
Mail To This Person

for cases where no hyperlink is present.

Comment 1

[David Baron :dbaron: (⌚️UTC-5, no longer working on Mozilla)]

I can understand wanting this in mail-news, but why in the browser?

Comment 2

[Matthew Tuck [:CodeMachine]]

There is already some hyperlinkifying in mail-news, perhaps it should be
extended to the browser (for text files).  There's probably not a lot of scope
in HTML, but it could still happen.

Comment 3

[Chris McAfee]

law.

Comment 4

[Bill Law]

This might be a nice feature but is definitely "out plan."  There's a fair
number of issues that would have to be resolved, such as:

o How to map the mouse click location to specific text
o How to interpret the text (I presume you want [e-mail] to be
recognized, not just mailto:[e-mail]).

A simpler plan might be to do something like accepting clicks on *selected* text
and feeding that text automatically to something like search.netscape.com.

Comment 5

[Matthew Tuck [:CodeMachine]]

While I don't know what search.netscape.com has to do with it, this was always
referring to selected text only, I don't think there's any other answer to the
first point.

I guess it would be desirable to only have this come up on text that fits the
bill - this should err on the positive side I think.

Comment 6

[Bill Law]

re: search.netscape.com

If we simply passed the selected text to the appropriate cgi script at that
location, we perhaps could avoid the hassle of parsing the text to determine
where to go to.  This has one nice benefit:  if you see some phrase mentioned on
a page, e.g. "Mozilla 5.0 beta release date" you could say: Hey!  I want to know
more about that, select it, right click, and say "Search the 'net..." (or
whatever) and get to related information.  That should work equally well if the
selected text is "mozilla.org".  It probably doesn't handle mailto: very well,
though (but if it's a person's name, like "Bill Clinton" it might get you to a
web page that has a mailto:[e-mail] link (which code that looks
for name@host couldn't do).

Just brainstorming.

Comment 7

[leger]

Updating QA contact.

Comment 8

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

perhaps i'm misunderstanding this bug --but, afaik, there are context-menu items
specific for links. ie, bring mouse over link, right mouseclick and see the
following context menu items:

Open Link in New Window
Edit Link in Composer
...[other items regularly in menu]...
Save Link As...
Copy Link Location

if this is the case, then i'll mark this bug wfm... otherwise pls clarify/change
summary. thx much!

Comment 9

[Jesse Ruderman]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 15176 ***

Comment 10

[Jesse Ruderman]

See bug 39042 for hyperlinkifying urls in text files.

Comment 11

[Blake Ross]

verified