437338 - Right-click context menu option in Bookmarks for Open in New Tab has changed letter

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 454965

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, defect)

Description

[Ed Holden]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9) Gecko/2008051206 Firefox/3.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9) Gecko/2008051206 Firefox/3.0

In previous versions of Firefox (2.x and earlier), when you right-click on a Bookmark, either in the menu or in the toolbar folder, you'd get a context menu containing an option called "Open in a New Tab."  The hotkey for this was T, and the T in Tab was underlined accordingly.  (At least, I think it was this way.)  So you could right-click a bookmark and press T to open the URL in a new tab, which is the same behavior as for any links.

However, in the Firefox 3 betas and release candidate, the W in New is underlined.  So you have to right-click and press W, which is counter-intuitive.  Worse yet, pressing T now triggers Cut, deleting the bookmark.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Right-click on a bookmark.
2. Press the T key.
Actual Results:  
The bookmark will be removed.

Expected Results:  
The bookmark's URL should be opened in a new Tab.

This may be a result of the new bookmarks system.

Comment 2

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

wrong dupe, duping to bug 454965 that is more complete