186922 - selected text context menu should include options to open selection as URL

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 10080

(Core :: DOM: Selection, enhancement)

Description

[Gino A. Melone]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021130
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021130

When a bit of text is selected, the context menu (right-click, usually) should
include options to open the selected text as though it were a URL.  In the
example URL (http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=49078&cid=4965494) the
text "space.com" occurs.  In order to surf there, you have to select the text
then paste it into the goto URL.  Options to open the text as a URL in the same
window, a new window and a new tab would be nice.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
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Actual Results:  
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Expected Results:  
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Comment 1

[Alfonso Martinez]

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