526501 - alt-enter in search box should put search in new tab for all search types

Status: NEW

(Thunderbird :: Search, enhancement)

Description

[Tuukka Tolvanen (sp3000)]

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.4pre) Gecko/20091005 Thunderbird/3.0pre

From firefox url/search bar usage, I kind of expect that if I want to search for things in a new tab I'll type and hit alt-enter. The tbird search box filters are live, but it should be possible to open the view, filtered, in a new tab -- perhaps canceling the filter in the original tab.

Currently if I filtered stuff and want to set that view aside in a tab I have to middle click on a folder and re-do the filtering.

steps:
1. select a search type in the search bar dropdown
2. type a query into the search box, e.g. "plop" and hit alt-enter

result: nothing happens
expected: search result in new tab for all search/filter types when alt-enter used

Comment 1

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

would "duplicate tab" function accomplish the same thing?

I don't understand why you want to do this, since canceling the filter returns the message list in the tab to its original state.