322388 - SHIFT+Left Click should open link in new tab instead of new window

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox :: Tabbed Browser, enhancement)

Description

[Furia]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051111 Firefox/1.5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051111 Firefox/1.5

SHIFT+Left Click should open link in new tab instead of new window, working just like the "open link in new tab" right click option.

This should work specially if the option "Force links that open new windows to open in: a new tab" is enabled.

Or maybe there should have another option to allow this behavior.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Enable option "Force links that open new windows to open in: a new tab".
2. Keep SHIFT pressed and right click any link


Actual Results:  
The new page is opened in a new window.

Expected Results:  
The new page should be opened in a new tab...

Comment 1

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20060104 Firefox/1.5

Ctrl+Click should open in e new tab, independant of the tab settings.

Comment 2

[Jesse Ruderman]

Shift+click opens a link in a new window; Ctrl+click opens a link in a new tab.

Wontfix.  I don't see a reason to break with every other browser (and older versions of Firefox), or to make the keyboard modifiers depend on tab-related prefs.

Comment 3

[Furia]

Didn't know about CTRL+Click feature.

Thanks.