273038 - Selected text in URL address box does not work with Apple's Services menu.

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 135268

(Firefox :: Menus, enhancement)

Description

[Basil Bourque]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/125.5.5 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/125.11
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

In Mac OS X, Apple provides a Services menu item on the application's menu. This menu has submenus 
to call external programs and pass user-selected data. These Services submenus are not enabled in 
Firefox. They work fine for Apple's Safari browser.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. You want to share a nifty URL with your buddy. 
2. Select the text if the URL in the Firefox window's "Location" address box.
3. To send an email with that seleted text, choose Firefox > Services > Mail > Send Selection. 
4.  Oops! The menu item is disabled for Firefox.

Comment 1

[Basil Bourque]

Developer info from Apple:

http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/SysServices/Concepts/
architecture.html

http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/SysServices/Tasks/using.html#//
apple_ref/doc/uid/20000854/CEGDDHJJ

Comment 2

[Jo Hermans]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 135268 ***