264764 - Middle-clicking on a live bookmark replaces existing tabs without confirmation

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: Tabbed Browser, defect)

Description

[Jamie Thompson]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10.1

I have a live bookmark for slashdot.org, and when I middle-click on the button
it opens all the items into tabs, replacing the existing tabs without any
confirmation. Ideally the tabs should open alongside the existing tabs, but
alternatively a confermation message could be issued.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create a live bookmark
2. Open some random tabs
3. Middle-click on the live bookmark

Actual Results:  
The existing tabs were replaced without confirmation by the tabs from the live
bookmark

Expected Results:  
Either opened the live bookmark results as new tabs rather than replacing the
existing ones, or just provide a confirmation message.

Comment 1

[Peter van der Woude [:Peter6]]

You are actually middleclicking on the live bookmark folder (forcing open in
tabs ), not middleclicking on the actual bookmark (in the folder)

The same happens if you middleclick on a normal folder or on a normal bookmark

->WFM

Comment 2

[Jamie Thompson]

(In reply to comment #1)
> You are actually middleclicking on the live bookmark folder (forcing open in
> tabs ), not middleclicking on the actual bookmark (in the folder)
> 
> The same happens if you middleclick on a normal folder or on a normal bookmark
> 
> ->WFM
> 
> 

Okay, fair enough, I wasn't aware of that functionality. As a sidenote though,
it would be nice to be able to open a folder's worth of bookmarks without
destroying the existing tabs, i.e. to open two live bookmarks's worth at once
without needing multiple windows, even if it was just an option somewhere for
replace/add to current tabs. Still, thanks for your help.