55705 - [rfe] enable middlemouse.openNewWindow by default on Windows

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(SeaMonkey :: Preferences, enhancement, P2)

Description

[Jesse Ruderman]

I think it would be neat if the middle mouse button opened links in a new 
window by default on Windows as well as on Mac and Linux.  It might be 
necessary to implement bug 55704 first (add gui for this pref and the 
middlemouse.paste pref).

I'm not planning to file another rfe for making middlemouse.paste default to 
true on Windows, but if anyone else thinks that's a good idea please file an 
rfe and post the bug number here :)

Comment 1

[Jesse Ruderman]

see also bug 12056, make ctrl-click or shift-click open in new window.

Comment 2

[Dan Rosen]

i doubt middlemouse should paste on windows -- it's not expected behavior, for
better or for worse :) -- but it *definitely* should open a new window. this is
a very common expected behavior -- ns4.x browsers and msie (where the middle
mouse isn't a wheel) implement this, so people would be confused by the
disparity here.

it would certainly be a "good thing" to fix 55704, but i would consider this
necessary (and very easy to fix) for rtm.

Comment 3

[don]

I would love it too, frankly.  But not at this late date.  "rtm-".

Comment 4

[Blake Ross]

taking this if Bill doesn't mind.

Comment 5

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

over back to pref land. :)

Comment 6

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

there are certainly a bunch of Mac mice [made by Kensington and Logitech, to 
name a couple of manufacturers] which have more than one button. pink, saari et 
al., d'you think we should include Mac mice here?

Comment 7

[saari (gone)]

Certainly doable, but not high priority.

Comment 8

[Blake Ross]

ben just enabled this by default on all platforms.

Comment 9

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

fooey. middlemouse.openNewWindow is certainly set to true in all.js [looking at
2001.02.09.09 comm bits on winNT], but for some reason it isn't working with the
3-button mouse i've hooked up to my office box. [works fine on linux, and
ctrl+click does open a new window on winNT.]

reopening. unless something else is going on. [fwiw, jag also saw this when he
was using win32 today.]

Comment 10

[Jesse Ruderman]

I think the regression is being tracked by bug 63950.  Re-marking this bug as 
fixed.

Comment 11

[Jesse Ruderman]

Oops, meant to mark this bug as fixed.

Comment 12

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

okay, adding dependency. i'll vrfy this when bug 63950 is fixed.

Comment 13

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

if someone w/3-button mouse hooked to a win32 box can get to this before me,
that'd be great.

Comment 14

[Jesse Ruderman]

Verif fixed using 2001 053020 on Win98.

Comment 15

[Brant Gurganus]

[RFE] is deprecated in favor of severity: enhancement.  They have the same meaning.