321302 - request for "linked from" icon (and/or go menu item)

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 23926

(Firefox :: Tabbed Browser, enhancement)

Description

[Michael Gilbert]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051217 Debian/1.5.dfsg-2 Firefox/1.5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051217 Debian/1.5.dfsg-2 Firefox/1.5

Oftentimes, I open many pages within tabs, and either forget which tab i originally clicked from or realize that i had closed that tab.  However, i see something in one of the new tabs that makes me think, ok, i want to go back to where i came from to get to this page.  Hence, it would be nice to have the ability to click on a "linked from" menu item and/or icon that would either take me to that tab or reopen that page in a new tab.

Note that I do not keep files in my history for security reasons, plus it can take significant time to trace through a history anyway.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[Jesse Ruderman]

Bookmarklet (easier to install, works even if history is disabled) :
http://www.squarefree.com/bookmarklets/misc.html#go_to_referrer

Extension (prettier button, knows the referrer from the first time you visited) :
http://www.squarefree.com/extensions/high/

Comment 2

[zug_treno]

Related to/duplicate of Core bug 23926?

Comment 3

[Michael Gilbert]

i agree, bug 23926 discusses the same feature that i am requesting.

just curious, why is something useful and simple like this not included in the core code?  the 'go to refferer' bookmarklet that Jesse points out (which btw does exactly what i want) is only one line of javascript.

Comment 4

[Philip Withnall (unavailable)]

(In reply to comment #3)
> just curious, why is something useful and simple like this not included in the
> core code?  the 'go to refferer' bookmarklet that Jesse points out (which btw
> does exactly what i want) is only one line of javascript.
> 

I don't make the design choices, but I would think that if we implemented every little one-line-of-code-only-no-really-it's-a-small-feature, Firefox would be really bloated.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 23926 ***