302492 - open page in new window/tab when shift-key is pressed not only when klicking links

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 237027

(Firefox :: Tabbed Browser, enhancement)

Description

[andreruediger]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; de-DE; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050524 Firefox/1.0.4 (Ubuntu package 1.0.2 MFSA2005-44)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; de-DE; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050524 Firefox/1.0.4 (Ubuntu package 1.0.2 MFSA2005-44)

it would be a nice feature if everytime i request a page to be diplayed
(klicking bookmark, pressing enter in addressbar/search field, klicking on
startup page, ...) and hold <shift>, a new window/tab (depends on preferences)
is opened.
that is much more comfortable than manually opening a new window/tab before
requesting that page.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Dave Townsend [:mossop]]

This works on trunk builds. Hold alt while pressing enter in address and search
bars to get a new tab. Hold ctrl while clicking a bookmark or any other link to
get it in a new tab.

I'm pretty sure that works on the release versions too.

Comment 2

[andreruediger]

You're right, sorry. But wouldn't it be more consistent if we had ONE shortcut
for this behavior instead of three (search and address bar -> alt, bookmarks ->
ctrl, links -> shift)?

Comment 3

[andreruediger]

You're right, sorry. But wouldn't it be more consistent if we had ONE shortcut
for this behavior instead of three (search and address bar -> alt, bookmarks ->
ctrl, links -> shift)?

(Forgot to reopen this. Sorry.)

Comment 4

[Dave Townsend [:mossop]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 237027 ***