37807 - Cmd-click-release (Mac) to load link in new window

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 12056

(SeaMonkey :: General, enhancement, P2)

Description

[Stanton McCandlish]

Related to bugs 18726, 31775, 30089 (in part), 37804.



IE, and (I think) Netscape Navigator/Communicator have long supported 
Cmd-Click-then-release on an <A HREF...></A> to load the linked item into a new 
window.  This is a very Good Thing.  Please replicate this functionality in 
Mozilla. (If Netscape doesn't do this, too, it should in my opinio

Comment 1

[Mike Pinkerton (not reading bugmail)]

nothing to do with xpmenus.

i totally agree though. i use this daily in 4.x. it's dogfood for me.

Comment 2

[Stanton McCandlish]

Retitling (had the wrong summary; oops!), moving to general category, and 
adding:

I should add that this is probably Ctrl-click-release or maybe right-click 
release in Windows, I'm not sure.  I was just basically suggesting whatever 
IE-like functionality one expects on whatever platform one is using. It's 
Cmd-click-release in M

Comment 3

[leger]

Putting on [nsbeta2+][dogfood-] radar.  Need fix for beta by May 16.

Comment 4

[leger]

Setting from Unconfirmed to New since pinkerton also agrees.

Comment 5

[don]

Bill, I know whe have another bug like this somewhere, don't we?

Comment 6

[Bill Law]

Yes, we do have another but like this (note: at some point we will have so many 
bugs that every conceivable new bug will be a dup :-).  That bug is #12056.  I'm 
resolving this one as a dup.  That bug has some description of the possible 
solution but it a bit dated (talks about nsWebShell stuff).  The problem will 
have to be re-assessed.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 12056 ***

Comment 7

[Blake Ross]

vrfy

Comment 8

[Daniel Veditz [:dveditz]]

Adding keyword to bugs which already show a nsbeta2 triage value in the status 
whiteboard so the queries don't get screwed up.