197304 - Home button should respect key modifiers and middle-clicks

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 232172

(Firefox :: Toolbars and Customization, enhancement)

Description

[carl johan crafoord]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20030312 Phoenix/0.5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20030312 Phoenix/0.5

when i use the middle button on my mouse and click with it on the icon of my
"homepage" it does not open in a new tab.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. open phoenix
2. click with middle mouse button on home icon (button)


Actual Results:  
nothing happens!

Expected Results:  
open a new tab, with my homepage in it.

i was expecting that this would work because:

1) it works that way when i click links with the middle mouse button
2) when i would press ctrl+t to get a new tab, it does not open my "homepage" in
it. that is weird because that happens when i open a new window. so i thought,
"what if i wanted to open a new tab, with my homepage in it?" ta-dah! ofcourse i
would just middle-click the home icon!

there. this is a bug that is a feature-that-does-not-exist.

please gimme? or fix? in whatever way you feel appropriate? i kind of like the
fact that ctrl+t doesn't open the homepage, but i would like to have the ability
to do that kind of thing. this would add that.

Comment 1

[Sébastien Delahaye]

There may be a dupe for this.

Anyway, confirming for developer review, and renaming (if we respect
middle-clicks, we should also respect key modifiers).

Related: bug 198028

Comment 2

[Ben Swartzlander]

Please fix this! Not having this feature is driving me nuts!

Comment 3

[Simon Paquet [:sipaq]]

Taking QA Contact

Comment 4

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

*** Bug 220677 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 5

[Simon Paquet [:sipaq]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 232172 ***

Comment 6

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+2]]

verified.