245688 - "Open link in tab" in context-menu on selected text containing URL

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 199634

(SeaMonkey :: UI Design, enhancement)

Description

[Cedric Dor]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040514
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040514

This would be useful, when user select some text which looks like a web-link
(but it is not a link).
It is can be two menu items: "... in new Tab" and "... in new Window".


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[Yan Morin]

This is just a hint:

in function nsContextMenu()
http://lxr.mozilla.org/mozilla/source/browser/base/content/browser.js#2815

add  this.isTextSelectedALink = false; attribute

in initMiscItems : function(), add something like
this.showItem( "context-openselect", this.isTextSelectedALink );

in initMenu, add a way to know if there is a selection (like in isTextSelection)
this.isTextSelectedALink = this.isTextSelectionALink();
and use a regexp to look if it's a link (ftp|http)://...

after that, add an extra item inside the xul popup menu.

Comment 2

[Xanthor Sccas]

FYI, this can already be done with extensions, like text/plain
[http://extensionroom.mozdev.org/more-info/textplain]

Comment 3

[Daniel Wang]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 199634 ***