409992 - Enable opening of the Places (Library) module in a tab rather than separate window.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 331559

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, enhancement)

Description

[Foteos Macrides]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9b3pre) Gecko/2007122705 Minefield/3.0b3pre
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9b3pre) Gecko/2007122705 Minefield/3.0b3pre

Enable opening of the Places (Library) module in a tab via use the keyboard and mouse shorts (e.g., Ctrl/Cmd+Enter/Return or Ctrl+Click) on the Show all History or Show all Bookmarks items in the History or Bookmarks drop menu.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Use a tabbing shortcut such as Ctrl/Cmd+Enter/Return on items in the History or Bookmarks drop menu
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Actual Results:  
Loading is in a tab for other items, but still in a separate window for the Places (Library) module.

Expected Results:  
Use a tab instead of separate window for the Places (Library) module.

Once one invokes and sets up the Places (Library) module, it typically is desireable to keep it throughout the session rather than close it, so that the set-up will be retained across successive uses of that module.  So it is also desirable to be able to place it in tab rather than a separate window.  

The tab with that module also should be restored when the browser is restarted via the Restart button in the Add-ons menu (which does not occur presently with the module in a separate window), and ideally across browser sessions generally.

Note that the homologous modules for Opera and Safari are placed in a tab by default.

Comment 1

[Al Billings [:abillings - ex-MoCo]]

If this happens, it won't be during Firefox 3. We're in the second beta and the UI is pretty set at this point. This would be a complete change from all previous versions of Firefox, if implemented.

Comment 2

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

The chrome URL for this is chrome://browser/content/places/places.xul
The URL can be bookmarked. I haven't tested if it is fully functional.
I don't think people want the Places window in a new tab by default.

Comment 3

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

Ah, memories: I'd forgotten that early in its evolution as a Safari ripoff, Places/the Organizer/the Library actually did open in a tab.

Comment 4

[Foteos Macrides]

(In reply to comment #2)
> The chrome URL for this is chrome://browser/content/places/places.xul
> The URL can be bookmarked. I haven't tested if it is fully functional.
> I don't think people want the Places window in a new tab by default.

I opened a new tab, then loaded the Library module into it via that URL, and it worked fine.  So I bookmarked it and can load it into a tab at will.

I'm not requesting that using a tab be made the default, but that it can be done via a Ctrl+Click (or equivalent shortcut, instead of just Click) on the Show All ... items of the History and Bookmark drop menus.  If the above works without problems that I can see, then this feature enhancement doesn't seem as though it would be all that complicated or worrisome to implement, though I understand a reluctance to take any unnecessary development risks before the planned Fx3.0 final release early in 2008.

Anyway, thanks for the tip, and I'll make due with that in the meantime.

Comment 5

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

Bug 451915 - move Firefox/Places bugs to Firefox/Bookmarks and History. Remove all bugspam from this move by filtering for the string "places-to-b-and-h".

In Thunderbird 3.0b, you do that as follows:
Tools | Message Filters
Make sure the correct account is selected. Click "New"
Conditions: Body   contains   places-to-b-and-h
Change the action to "Delete Message".
Select "Manually Run" from the dropdown at the top.
Click OK.

Select the filter in the list, make sure "Inbox" is selected at the bottom, and click "Run Now". This should delete all the bugspam. You can then delete the filter.

Gerv