208303 - Open selected URL without using the keyboard

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 195987

(Core :: DOM: Selection, enhancement)

Description

[Alexander Schwab]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030507
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030507

If I select a URL that is not actually a link but written on a webpage (e.g. on
http://www.heise.de/newsticker/foren/go.shtml?read=1&msg_id=3557736&forum_id=43337
there is a "pure-text-link") there is no way to open this URL with just using
the mouse. 

It were nice if the text selection component would recognize
URIs/eMail-Addresses and so on automatically giving the opportunity to "Open
link in new tab/window" or "Send email to..." when clicking the right mouse
button while the mouse is pointing to the selected text.

Dragging the selected text into the URL bar doesn´t have the desired effect. It
just copies the text selection into the text field.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Mark a not-linked but syntactically correct URL that is written on a webpage
or simple text document and viewed in mozilla.
2. A right-click onto the selection
Actual Results:  
A menu appears giving the possibility to Copy/Paste/etc., "Web search for
<selection>" and "View selection source".

Expected Results:  
It should recognize URLs and email-addresses and give the opportunity to "Open
link in new tab/windows" or "Send email to...".

If I paste a URL into the empty URL bar, there is no way to access the given
link without pressing ENTER. A small GO-button integrated into the URL bar would
solve this issue.

Comment 1

[Kai de Leeuw]

There is a small GO-button integrated into the URL already.
If you can't see it it is deactivated.

To activate:
1. Open Edit > Preferences
2. Select the Navigator item in the list
3. Check the Go check box

Comment 2

[WD]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 195987 ***