Closed Bug 196650 Opened 22 years ago Closed 21 years ago

Choosing a bookmark item in the dock menu doesn't yield to a new window/new tab

Categories

(Camino Graveyard :: Bookmarks, defect)

PowerPC
macOS
defect
Not set
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

RESOLVED FIXED

People

(Reporter: pguyot, Assigned: sfraser_bugs)

Details

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.4a) Gecko/20030309 Chimera/0.7+ Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.4a) Gecko/20030309 Chimera/0.7+ Choosing a bookmark in the dock menu is like clicking a bookmark item in the toolbar or choosing an item in the bookmarks window: it doesn't yield to a new window. However, I think it should (at least it should behave like "Loading a page requested by another application"). Rationale: let's say I don't know if I have a Camino window open since there are so many window open at the moment, I want to access a bookmarked page. I have two methods: (a) I click Camino's icon. If there was a window, I can choose to lose that window and click a bookmark item in the toolbar/choose an item in the menu. Or I can choose to open a new window/tab/command-click a bookmark item in the toolbar. If there was no window, a new empty window opens and I can do the same (except that usually won't care if the home page window is lost). (b) I choose an item in Camino's dock menu. If there was a front window that I didn't see, I lose its content. If there wasn't, a new window opens and I just lose the home page (without being able to choose). The suggested behavior is to create a window/tab, avoid loading the home page and get the bookmarked page. Otherwise, Camino's dock menu might not be that useful, since once you lost one or two pages that you have to search in Camino's horrible history list, you're like Pavlov's dog, you'll probably won't use it again. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Start google on a stupid request. Browse for 10 minutes. Find a page that is interesting by following links here and there. 2. Go and do other things on your computer. Open a lot of windows as you're used to. 3. Click Camino's dock menu to retrieve some page related to an e-mail you just received. Notice that the interesting page you found in (1) is now lost except if you dig the history list for 10 minutes.
Paul is this behaviour still true with the new bookmark system ?
If Camino is the front application, choosing an item in the Dock menu will replace the content of the front window (which is a wishable behavior). If another application is the front application, it will open a new window (which is exactly what I wanted). This is with Build ID: 2003102708. So as far as I'm concerned, the bug is fixed. Great, I gonna start using the Dock menu again.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 21 years ago
Resolution: --- → FIXED
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