250074 - Text dragged to the URL or Search Bar should respect key modifiers

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox :: Toolbars and Customization, enhancement)

Description

[Gids Goldberg]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040626 Firefox/0.9.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040626 Firefox/0.9.1

Following the fixing of Bug 176675 when text is dragged to the search or URL
bars it is automatically loaded. However, using this method means it is
impossible to load the resulting page into a new tab or window. The remedy for
this would be to support key modifiers with this action, for example Alt + Drag
opens the resulting page in a new tab. 

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Drag some text into the search bar
2.Resulting page is loaded into active tab regardless of user's preference

Comment 1

[Jesse Ruderman]

The functions added in bug 246719 could be helpful.  The address bar and search
bar are weird because they use Alt for "new tab" while everything else uses Ctrl.

Comment 2

[Alan D Winter]

I use Tabbed Browser v1.2.4. The way I have this set up enable me to drag text
from a page to the url bar, and it opens up in a new tab. Windows ME. So I don't
see this problem.

Comment 3

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

Problem with this is Ctrl+Drag means "Copy" so this is a little wrong-ish.  Assuming this could be done sanely, Future for now.

Comment 4

[Jared Wein [:jaws] (please needinfo? me)]

Comment #3 points at one potential problem, and the other potential problem is the discoverability of this feature. Further, implementing this feature would continue to break down the tab-owning-location-bar structure that we would like users to understand.