263231 - CTRL/CTRL-SHIFT to open Bookmark reversed for Links.

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox :: Tabbed Browser, defect)

Description

[Kevin Harvie]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041001 Firefox/0.10.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041001 Firefox/0.10.1

When opening a bookmark from my Bookmarks menu or the Bookmark Toolbar,
CRTL-Click opens it in a new tab in the foreground.  CTRL-SHIFT-Click opens it
in a new tab in the background.

For web links it is opposite.  CTRL-Click opens the link on a new tab in the
background, and CTRL-SHIFT-Click opens the link on a new tab in the foreground.


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
Happens with any bookmark or link.



Expected Results:  
It would be better if both bookmarks and links opened in new tabs using the same
hot-keys.

Comment 1

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

(In reply to comment #0)
> It would be better if both bookmarks and links opened in new tabs using the same
> hot-keys.

It does seem like it would make it easier to remember what's going to happen,
but since Mike Connor said in bug 236864, comment 2 that it's reversed by design
(I assume so that the easier one-modifier click does the most common thing:
bookmarks you click because you want to see them, links in new tabs you open
because you want to keep reading the current page), you're probably looking at a
WONTFIX.

Comment 2

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

By design, --> WONTFIX.