314925 - Middle-Clicking Bookmark closes Bookmarks pull-down menu

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 260611

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, enhancement)

Description

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User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051025 Firefox/1.5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051025 Firefox/1.5

Middle-Clicking a bookmarked item in the "bookmarks" pull-down menu loads that site in a background tab as expected but also closes the pull-down menu.

This is annoying if a user wants to open several bookmarked sites in background tabs without using tab groups. I think it's a safe assumption on Firefox's part that the user wants to load multiple sites if she is middle-clicking; otherwise she could simply left-click with the same results (ie. close the pull-down menu and go the bookmarked site right away). 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
Open the "Bookmarks" pull-down menu and middle-click any item. 
Actual Results:  
The pull-down menu closes.

Expected Results:  
The pull-down menu should stay open if an item is merely middle-clicked (ie. loaded in a background tab) until the user moves the mouse away, clicks somewhere else, left-clicks an item or does something else to indicate that she wants to close the pull-down menu.

Running Tabbrowser Preferences, most recent version.

Comment 1

[Brian Polidoro]

dupe Bug 260611?

Comment 2

[cheers]

(In reply to comment #1)
> dupe Bug 260611?
> 

Seems that way. Sorry. ;-(

I did a search but I must have missed that one. Thanks for pointing this out though.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 260611 ***