199634 - Open selected text as url in new (Tab| Window) -if it is not a link-

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 10080

(Core :: DOM: Selection, enhancement)

Description

[Csaba Lack]

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

My idea is very easy to make, I think. When I am browsing on web pages,
sometimes I want to open an URL which is not a hyperlink just a text that
starting with or without http(s)://. Now, I have to select it, right click, copy
or ctrl+c, and I have to insert it to Address bar, and after it GO or enter, to
open the webpage.

I am just wondering what if I open it another easier way, with select it, right
click... open it as url in new tab; open it as url in new window.
There are lots of space in the "on-selected-item-context" menu.

Maybe it can be also useful, when the hyperlink is wrong and I just select the
"right" part of it, and open it on the same way...


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Select text
2. Right click
3. Open it as URL in new tab (missing for me :-)
4. Open it as URL in new window (missing for me :-)

Comment 1

[Jo Hermans]

Just a FYI: you can select a plaintext link and simply drag 'n drop it to some
empty space on the tab bar (around the close button if you have many tabs open)
to open it in a new tab.

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

Comment 2

[Paul Wyskoczka]

v

Comment 3

[Daniel Wang]

*** Bug 245688 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***