Closed Bug 216667 Opened 21 years ago Closed 19 years ago

URL bar should include a 'Paste and Go' in the context menu

Categories

(Firefox :: Menus, enhancement)

Product:
Firefox
Component:
Menus
Type:
enhancement
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 492544

People

(Reporter: jan_sammler, Assigned: bugzilla)

References

Details

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5b) Gecko/20030817 Mozilla Firebird/0.6.1+ Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5b) Gecko/20030817 Mozilla Firebird/0.6.1+ To improve the accessibility of the browser, it should include an menuitem to paste an URL into the URL bar and go the this site instantly. This would be useful for links from texts and programs which doesn't support URL highlighting. As named, an URL bar is a control to enter URLs and the users would appreciate any step to improve the handling of URLs with that control - including 'Paste and Go'. An user of the MozillaZine community has written such a extension [1] which's called 'Paste and Go' after a request in the forums [2]. Implementing into the main browser shouldn't be a huge task if the author agrees to do so. This extensions installs a new item called "Paste and search" for the search field, too. [1] http://tecwizards.de/mozilla/ [2] http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=18046 Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Right-click on the URL bar. 2. View the menu. Actual Results: The menu doesn't contain a "Paste and Go"-item. Expected Results: The browser should have an item called "Paste and Go" to simply paste and switch to an URL.
Another idea would be a context menu in textboxes (textbox, input type="text") which will do rather the same by offering an option called "Paste and submit/search etc." - the last action should depend on the button which will submit the form.
The developers have stated more than one time that such functionality is best located in extensions. Extensions will only be merged into firebird, if they duplicate functionality, present in IE, which hinders IE-users from a switch, like autoscroll. -> WONTFIX
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 21 years ago
Resolution: --- → WONTFIX
*** Bug 269781 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
*** Bug 315289 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 317257 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Mike, can we reopen this? I don't think the reason for WONTFIXing holds true anymore. Features have been integrated from extensions that do not relate in any way to migration from IE. Setting uiwanted, because the proposed solution in comment 0 might not be the best. The current workaround (setting middlemouse.contentLoadURL to true) isn't really that great, since it overrides the middle-click close tab feature and isn't immediately obvious or discoverable. The available extension, while fine, doesn't cover bookmark keywords and is not available in the same number of localisations as Firefox itself. I can't think of use-cases where pasting to the location bar isn't closely followed by navigating to the pasted URL. I don't think navigation should be automatic on paste, but there should be some way of triggering that behaviour.
Keywords: uiwanted
WHAT EVER MOZILLA This is so a small feature that it should be added. No one wants to search for an extension like this. We are not making a "Mozilla Internet Explorer" were making a mozilla firefox. I guess what im saying is lets not be skimpy on such small but useful features. Whocares if its not something migitaed from internet explorer. We are no longer in the 1980s. We demand features not addons. Mozilla Firefox has offically changed its name to "Mozilla Internet Explorer" Now only if Microsft could take this browser over, We would getr not ony less features but less security updates. Yeaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh OPERA GOIGN BACK TO OPERA Oh by the way Opera ROcks
changing summary. I hate menus, the less the better, but this one is good and usefull (as Opera has prooven) and the WONTFIX should be reconsidered.
OS: Windows XP → All
Hardware: PC → All
Summary: URL bar should include a 'Paste and Go'-item → URL bar should include a 'Paste and Go' in the context menu
(In reply to comment #7) Brian, this isn't the place for those sorts of comments. Please take them to MozillaZine. I'm already going to fight for this bug to be reopened on it's own merits, let's keep this to technical discussion. If this is given some sort of go-ahead (i.e. something other than WONTFIX), I'd be willing to work on this for Firefox 2.0... trunk first if necessary, but I can't imagine there'd be any major differences.
QA Contact: bugzilla → menus
Definitely worth looking at again. Reopening for consideration for Firefox 2.0. I kind of think that the better place for this function to be is on "copy and go", but that's harder to do for copying text outside the browser I guess ...
Status: VERIFIED → UNCONFIRMED
Resolution: WONTFIX → ---
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Ever confirmed: true
"Copy and go" would be more like bug 236336.
(In reply to comment #10) > Definitely worth looking at again. Reopening for consideration for Firefox 2.0. Thanks! > I kind of think that the better place for this function to be is on "copy and > go", but that's harder to do for copying text outside the browser I guess ... Well, my main motivation for this is for pasting links from outside the browser, but I have occasionally used it for text links inside the browser, too. In my mind, this isn't as important, since drag/drop can do the job.
I'll take this if nobody objects - surely you all saw this coming ;)
Status: NEW → ASSIGNED
Assignee: firefox → cusser.bugs
Status: ASSIGNED → NEW
Status: NEW → ASSIGNED
> I can't think of use-cases where pasting to the location bar > isn't closely followed by navigating to the pasted URL. I can't think of one where it is, because it is frighteningly uncommon that I have a URL in my copy buffer with the intention to visit it when basically any application can automatically hyperlink URLs these days. If I do happen to have a URL in my copy buffer it's normally going somewhere other than the URL bar. This is available with an extension, nonintuitive, undiscoverable (the URL bar is a text field, nothing except common text operations should be expected in it*) and adds context menu bloat. There's already a Go button located two pixels from the URL bar. I'd strongly recommend wontfixing this for all of the above reasons, although if it looks like this is likely to land I could probably come up with another half-dozen. - Chris * the exception to this is keyword addition for submit fields, but that should really be symbolised with an icon at the end of the field rather than a context menu anyway. I should file a bug on that.
Ben, I thought about this off and on since my last comment, and the more I do, the less the feature makes sense to me. Chris raises some excellent points, but really this seems like the sort of thing that either needs to be handled by the OS (ie: open with entries on the source of the copy) or an extension.
Status: ASSIGNED → RESOLVED
Closed: 21 years ago → 19 years ago
Resolution: --- → WONTFIX
Okay, no problem - thanks for considering it. I think there are probably other/better solutions as well after talking to Chris about it.
I guess I was a little late for the discussion (This bug came up when I was trying to file a bug for this purpose). I think this feature should be in Firefox 2.0 Places was created because 1/3 of webpage visit come from bookmarks or history (or something like that). So maybe we should conduct a survey or something asking what % of times do our users paste links in the Location Bar. Just my 2 cents
+1 to the cricketmilki comment. "paste and go" + "paste and search" is a more convenient way of running non-clickable links / searches than paste + hit enter.
This feature did not even make it on FF 3!? It was available on Chrome right out of the gate and I use it religiously..
Google Chrome has it and Opera. Although, when I "paste and go" a word Opera makes a worthless address of it; no search.
FWIW, Chrome's Paste and Go context menu item only shows up when the clipboard contains something that looks like a URL. I think that might address at least part of people's concerns about context menu bloat.
(In reply to comment #22) Indeed. I've been using Paste and Go 3 ( https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/9133 ) for a long time now. It adds 1 item to the Location bar's context menu and 1 item to the Search bar's context menu.The Location bar has thus 7 items in total; the Search bar has 9 items in total. Nothing monstrous or out of the ordinary. I wouldn't call it 'bloat'. On the contrary, Paste-and-Go saves me quite a number of clicks at the end of the day. Paste-and-Go is a very simple, yet extremely useful feature.
Wow, since 2003 nothing has been done about paste and go function in Firefox. From the Pilot test http://mozillalabs.com/testpilot/2010/03/17/popular-menu-buttons/#more-3648 we can see that copy and paste are top five most used items in mouse shortcuts. So, paste and go function is more logical now to be implemented. If you are so sure how important this is, do a poll and you will see answers. Also note that this is one of simple things that make browsing faster. I know there is a addon, but why do we need it if we can add this feature to Firefox.
FWIW: This issue has finally been acknowledged by Mozilla and is being tackled in https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=492544 (Add 'Paste and Go' + 'Paste and Search' to context menu on location field + search field)
Resolution: WONTFIX → DUPLICATE
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