400831 - right click + 't' opens up new tab on hyper link, deletes bookmark in bookmark tool bar

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 301888

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, defect)

Description

[mike]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.8) Gecko/20071008 Firefox/2.0.0.8
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.8) Gecko/20071008 Firefox/2.0.0.8

not really a bug, just (in my opinion) poor design.

When I right click on a hyper link and then press 't' firefox opens up a new tab with the website that the hyper link points to as the contents of the tab.

When I right click on a bookmark in the bookmark tool bar and then press 't' firefox deletes the bookmark.

This is frustrating, as I accidentally do this sometimes. I use a laptop, and using the mouse pad is slower than typing 't'.

The context menu of the tool bar has 'd' labeled as the hot key for delete, not 't'. I just wish that both context menus would have a consistent hot key scheme.

Thanks

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open up a new tab using a hyper link context menu
 a. right click on the hyper link
 b. hit 't' on your keyboard
2. Delete a bookmark from the tool bar
 a. right click on the bookmark tool bar button
 b. hit 't' on your keyboard
Actual Results:  
1. Firefox opened a new tab
2. Firefox deleted my bookmark

Expected Results:  
1. Firefox opens a new tab with the page referenced in the hyper link 
2. Firefox opens a new tab with the page referenced in the bookmark

Comment 1

[Elmar Ludwig]

't' is the shortcut for 'cut' in the bookmark context menu