356705 - Add contextual menu options to feed links

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Camino Graveyard :: General, enhancement)

Description

[Chris Lawson (gone)]

Control-clicking on a feed link (using either the http: or feed: protocol) should have a "Subscribe to [feed name]" contextual menu option just like the RSS button in the location bar does. This saves users a trip to the location bar in the case where feed links on pages are more prominent than the icon in the location bar.

Comment 1

[Nick Kreeger]

Would be nice to have, depends on how fast (and cheap) the nsIFeedSniffer interface would work on a on-demand call. My concern would be expenses that come from validating the XML content while waiting to pose a content menu.

Comment 2

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

Mass un-setting milestone per 1.6 roadmap.

Filter on RemoveRedonkulousBuglist to remove bugspam.

Developers: if you have a patch in hand for one of these bugs, you may pull the bug back to 1.6 *at that point*.

Comment 3

[Chris Lawson (gone)]

Talked about this a bit on IRC today. Phil Rignalda echoed Nick's concerns from comment 1; namely, that we'd have to download something in order to show a menu, and that is probably going to be slow.

We could just assume "feed://" links, which would be fairly quick, but it wouldn't help the vast majority of embedded <a href>s out there, which mostly use "http://" in my experience.

Since I filed this, I'm marking it WONTFIX (more of a CANTFIX, really, at least not in any way that makes sense). If anyone disagrees, feel free to re-open it :)