307336 - Highlight of URL in page text should allow it to be a link

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 39042

(Firefox :: General, enhancement)

Description

[Paul Heitkemper]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050716 Firefox/1.0.6
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050716 Firefox/1.0.6

When viewing a page, sometimes there is a URL in the text.  If you highlight the
URL, you can "Search the web for...".  I'm suggesting that you should be able to
have the same options as a hyperlink (ie open, open in new tab, etc).  

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. surf to http://www.dailystar.com/dailystar/allheadlines/89086.php
2. Find the site www.pimaxpress.com in the text
3. 



Expected Results:  
software should allow me to select www.pimaxpress.com, and surf to it.

Comment 1

[Jo Hermans]

there are extensions that do this ....

Comment 2

[Adam Guthrie]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 39042 ***

Comment 3

[benc]

V/dupe.