323073 - Allow opening bookmark menu folders in new tabs

Status: VERIFIED WORKSFORME

(Camino Graveyard :: Tabbed Browsing, enhancement)

Description

[Matteo Risoldi]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051229 Camino/1.0b2
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051229 Camino/1.0b2

Say that I have a window open with two tabs already up. If I have a bookmark folder with 3 bookmarks in it and I choose the "Open in tabs" function for it, the two tabs I had already open will be replaced by the first two bookmarks that are loaded. This is not practical in case I want to open more than one group (folder) of bookmarks, as the first will be replaced by the following, and so on. It can be considered a low priority thing; however note that it can cause loss of data in forms, and at least once it caused me to abort of an e-banking operation by navigating away from it when I opened my news bookmarks while waiting its completion...

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open a Camino window and make a bookmark folder with 3 bookmarks (say, www.foo.com, www.bar.com and www.xyz.com)
2. Load two tabs, for example one with www.google.com and one with www.mozilla.org
3. In this window, go to the bookmarks, in the folder that you created, and select "Open in tabs"

Actual Results:  
The open tabs with www.google.com and www.mozilla.com will be reloaded with www.foo.com and www.bar.com. A third tab is correctly created with www.xyz.com.

Expected Results:  
It would be better to open three new tabs with the bookmarks to open.

Comment 1

[Stuart Morgan]

That's what "open in new tabs" is for; "open in tabs" is expected to overwrite existing tabs.  So really this is an RFE for having "open in new tabs" as another (or a replacement) option for folders in the bookmark menu.  Worth considering, so confirming and retitling appropriately.

Comment 2

[Wevah (Nate Weaver)]

If you hold down the Command key when selecting "Open in Tabs" it'll open in new tabs (at least on the trunk).

Comment 3

[Smokey Ardisson (offline for a while; not following bugs - do not email)]

Yeah, this is WFM on the branch, too.  We'll get the dynamic updating of that menu item when bug 290212 is fixed.