312032 - Enable selected text to be opened as a link in a new tab/window

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 227922

(Firefox :: Menus, enhancement)

Description

[Nicklas Nygård]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b5) Gecko/20051006 Firefox/1.4.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b5) Gecko/20051006 Firefox/1.4.1

In the text selection popup menu there could be an option to open the selected
text as a link in a new tab or window. I.e. in addition to "Search web for" and
"View selection source" there could be a "Open as link in new tab" option as well.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Select some text in a browser window
2.Right click
3.

Actual Results:  
Popup window opens with options:
Copy
Select All
*separator*
Search web for "..."
View selection source

Expected Results:  
Popup window opens with options:
Copy
Select All
*separator*
Search web for "..."
View selection source
*separator*
Open selection as link in new tab
Open selection as link in new window

Comment 1

[Elmar Ludwig]

This is extension material and likely WONTFIX. In fact, there are already several
extensions that will do this, e.g. "Plain Text Links" or "Linkification".

Comment 2

[Dave Townsend [:mossop]]

This seems to be a Firefox version of bug 10080

Comment 3

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

And the Firefox version of bug 10080 is...

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 227922 ***