191857 - Show if a link wants to open a new window

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 14027

(SeaMonkey :: Tabbed Browser, enhancement)

Description

[Sascha Kulawik]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de-AT; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021212
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de-AT; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021212

This could be an enhancement.
Some Webpages have a lot of links in their webside who wants to open in a new
window. If youre using tabbed browsing, it is annoying if you have a lot of open
windows - so sometimes I close this new window and open it again in a tab.
Open every link in a tab is also annoying, because if you do not need the "old"
browser window anymore you open a the new one and close the old one.

So my suggestion:
It would be nice to see if the link wants to open a new window by hover over the
link. Maybe you can add a kind of toolbar that appears if you hover over a link
(like the toolbar in IE by hovering over images) where you can select:
"Open Link in new Tab"
"Force Link to open in this Window"
"Open Link in new Window"
and where you can see a small icon, which repesentates the normal behavior for
this link.
If you click on the link itself, it would use the normal behavior of the link.

Regards,

Sascha

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
Feature Request

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Duplicate of "Indicate whether a link will open in a new window"

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 14027 ***

Comment 2

[Paul Wyskoczka]

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