257056 - Add a "Go to this URL" in the context menu

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 10080

(Core :: DOM: Selection, enhancement)

Description

[Frédéric Buclin]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; fr-FR; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040803
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; fr-FR; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040803

When right-clicking on some selected text which is a valid URL (e.g.
http://mozilla.org) or a portion of a valid URL (e.g. mozilla.org), the context
menu should add a "Go to this URL" line so that the user can directly go to that
URL.

This is very useful when the URL in not enclosed in <a href="http://...">...</a>
tags. Actually, one has to select the URL, copy it, paste it into the location
bar and type return.

I find this feature even more useful than the proposition in bug 244121 which is
the only similar bug I could find about this topic. The advantage of the context
menu is that you does not need to have a 3 button mouse or to double-click
something with a given combination of buttons or to copy anything (which leaves
your clipboard unmodified).

Not sure if the Opera browser has this function.


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Select some text which is (part of) a valid URL but not enclosed in the <a
href="">...</a> tags.
2. Right-click

Actual Results:  
You have no option to "Go to this URL".

Expected Results:  
You should be able to "Go to this URL" using the context menu.

Comment 1

[Mats Palmgren (inactive)]

Please search for duplicates before filing a bug report, thanks.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 10080 ***

Comment 2

[Frédéric Buclin]

What do you think I did before filling this one???? If you don't give the right
keywords, you can miss some bugs. I read almost 100 of them for nothing using
some keywords such as "URL" instead of "link", unfortunately. Maybe Bugzilla
should use a better way to search for bugs e.g. by looking for similar words
("URL" = "link"), but that's another question.

Thanks anyway for the dupe.