217816 - Option to duplicate current window for CTRL + N, as it works in IE

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 36269

(SeaMonkey :: Preferences, enhancement)

Description

[Webmaster33]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5a) Gecko/20030718
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5a) Gecko/20030718

In Preferences, in Navigator category, you can set to Display on new window, one
of the following options:
- Blank page
- Home page
- Last page visited

The "Last page visited" is close to the behaviour like IE has, however IE always
opens the same URL what was in the active window where you pressed the CTRL + N,
so we can say IE "duplicates the window".

I suggest to have another option in Preferences/Navigator, named:
- URL of active window (duplicate window)

In addition to the feature above, this "duplicate window" behaviour should be
always available for a specific key shortcut, e.g. SHIFT + ALT + D, so that way
user can still set New Window to open a blank window when pressing CTRL+N,
because active window duplication would be possible using the SHIFT + ALT + D
key shortcut.

Thanks,
Webmaster33

Reproducible: Always

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Comment 1

[Webmaster33]

Instead of SHIFT + ALT + D,
the Ctrl+D would be even better key shortcut for window duplication.

Comment 2

[Webmaster33]

After checking remembered, that CTRL+D is already taken (remember now, that it's
an old traditional boormarking key shortcut) as shown on these pages:
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/ui/accessibility/mozkeylist.html
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/ui/accessibility/mozkeyplan.html

Following key shortcuts seems to be free:
SHIFT + ALT + D
ALT + D (can be used only for Windows)

Comment 3

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 36269 ***

Comment 4

[Stephen Donner [:stephend] Not actively reading bugmail]

verified dup