457300 - Implement "Copy link" context menu item for links when composing HTML messages

Status: NEW

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, enhancement, P4)

Description

[realgrouchy]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.8.1.14) Gecko/20080404 Firefox/2.0.0.14
Build Identifier: 2.0.0.14 (OS X 10.5.5 Intel)

When composing (forwarding) an e-mail in HTML format, there should be a "copy link location" option in the context menu for links whose text is not the URL.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open Thunderbird
2. Go to Tools > Account Settings > Compositin & Addressing and make sure it is set to compose in HTML format
3. Create a text link, or forward a message containing a text link
4. Right-click (or otherwise open the context menu) on the link
Actual Results:  
Actual results: There is no "Copy link location" option in the menu, as one might expect there to be.


I see now that it is possible to highlight the link and click on "Format > Link Properties", but to be honest I have NEVER created a text link in TB (and thus never realized that option was there) until going now to do a test case on non-forwarded messages.

Comment 1

[Thomas D. (:thomas8)]

Similar to Bug 695142 - Implement ways of opening links (URLs) from message composition in Browser (Ctrl+Click, "Open Link in Browser" context menu)

Comment 2

[Thomas D. (:thomas8)]

This is a valid and useful RFE.
Copying the URL of a link via context menu is a common scenario, and imo there's no reason why this shouldn't work for links in composition.

Comment 3

[Thomas D. (:thomas8)]

For consistency with Firefox, this should be "Copy Link" now.