271115 - feature request: right-click on drop-down menu could offer option to copy the entire list as text

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox :: Menus, enhancement)

Description

[Joe]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

It would be nice if I could right-click on a drop down menu and be given an
option to copy the entire list as text.

Then I could paste the text into notepad or whatever.

Consider a website that has a drop down list of all the states in the U.S.  It
would be nice to copy the list and when I paste it in notepad (or some other
text editor) for the list to paste like this...

Alabama
Alaska
Arizona
Arkansas
[...]



Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[Kevin Brosnan]

This is a very obscure request, for a feature that almost no one needs. 

Comment 2

[Asaf Romano (gone)]

(In reply to comment #1)
> This is a very obscure request, for a feature that almost no one needs. 

While I agree, these decisions should be done by project "offical" peers.

Comment 3

[D]

One feature that I like about IE browser was that it allowed me to select an
item from a dropdown list and make a copy of it as text to paste somewhere else.
 Can this be implement to FF.

This is not an obscure request, as I used this feature almost every single day
at work.  I like alot of feature FF have.  But this dropdown list copy option is
important and I can't switch to FF without it.

Comment 4

[Peter van der Woude [:Peter6]]

so this is either new or wontfix, not unco
->NEW

Comment 5

[Philip Taron]

While I don't think that there should be any UI for this, I would note that
Mozilla stores its bookmarks in an HTML file called bookmarks.html.  If you want
to do mass processing (of any sort) to your bookmarks, go to
%APPDATA%\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\random_garbage_here.default\bookmarks.html
and look around in that file.  Open it up in Firefox, even! :)

From there, you should be able to paste to notepad to your heart's content.

Comment 6

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

Definitely not a core feature, ever.