60581 - Bookmark context menu should offer "Open in New Window"

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(SeaMonkey :: Bookmarks & History, enhancement, P3)

Description

[a.haakmat]

When right-clicking on a bookmark in "My sidebar" (thus invoking a contextual
menu), it would be nice to have the option "Open in new window" listed there.

Comment 1

[R.K.Aa.]

see bug 33758: "Middle click to open in new window should work in sidebar"

A comment in that bug says that links in sidebar panels also also ought to
inherit contex menus links in normal pages have.

Context menus isn't a specifically mentioned in the original bug-report, so not
marking dup now, but i think this would naturally sort under bug 33758.

Comment 2

[Fabian Guisset]

mpt, design master, what do you think? Should this be confirmed? Should this be 
marked a duplicate of bug 33758? This is about context menus, while bug 33758 is 
about middle-click, but you commented that context menus should inherit all the 
menuitems of normal links. What do you think of this? Are you aware of another 
bug about siderbar context menus?
Fabian.

Comment 3

[Matthew T (active 1999-2002)]

Well it shouldn't be marked as a dup of bug 33758, for the very good reason that 
33758 is fixed and this is not.

But as I said in bug 33758, links in sidebar panels should have the same context 
menus as links in Web pages -- so confirming. This is currently being discussed 
in bug 61305.

Comment 4

[Jesse Ruderman]

The bookmarks sidebar is a tree, not a webpage, so I don't see what this has to 
do with the discussion about context menus in html sidebar panels.

I think this is a dup of bug 31266.

Comment 5

[Fabian Guisset]

*** Bug 65808 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 6

[Fabian Guisset]

I'd say this blocks 31266. Bug 31266 looks too much like a tracking bug.

Comment 7

[Jesse Ruderman]

mpt: why does this bug depend on bug 61305?

Comment 8

[Matthew T (active 1999-2002)]

Because bug 61305 is discussing whether or not sidebar panels should have context 

menus at all. If that bug gets fixed by removing the context menus altogether, 

this bug will get wontfixed. But feel free to remove the dependency if you think 

it's too tenuous.

Comment 9

[Alfonso Martinez]

*** Bug 95144 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 10

[R.K.Aa.]

*** Bug 98113 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 11

[Chris Lyon]

*** Bug 101469 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 12

[Hixie (not reading bugmail)]

*** Bug 101469 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 13

[mdimitrio]

What does that "and in new tab" mean?

Marcos.

Comment 14

[Alex Bishop]

Marcos, the latest Real Cool Feature in Mozilla is the ability to have a tabbed 
browser interface a la Opera. So if we're going to have an 'Open in New Window' 
command for the bookmark context menu, it would also be handy to have an 'Open 
in New Tab' command.

See http://www.mozillazine.org/talkback.html?article=2032 for more details 
about the tab browser.

Comment 15

[mdimitrio]

Thanks Bishop :-)

And agreed with the "Open in new tab"

Marcos.

Comment 16

[Ben Goodger (use ben at mozilla dot org for email)]

*** Bug 71400 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 17

[R.K.Aa.]

*** Bug 104568 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 18

[R.K.Aa.]

*** Bug 104570 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 19

[Ben Goodger (use ben at mozilla dot org for email)]

Paul Chen is now taking Bookmarks bugs. For your convenience, you can filter 
email notifications caused by this by searching for 'ilikegoats'.

Comment 20

[Kamil Toman]

It would be also nice if it was possible to open in a new 'tabbed' window...

Comment 21

[mdimitrio]

Kamil Toman 2001-10-29 14:09 -------

> It would be also nice if it was possible to open in a new 'tabbed' window...

It doesn't make any sense at all to me, since the newly created page would have
only one tab (the opened address).

Now, if you want that all newly created windows display the tab interface by
default, then file another bug, if it already doesn't exist. One option for that
bug that would make sense is placing an option in menu View->Show/Hide->Tabs,
and sub-options "Show always" and "Show only when needed" as default. Perhaps a
"Hide always" like in 'Site Navigagion bar', but that wouldn't make as much sense.

Marcos.

Comment 22

[Blake Ross]

reassigning to me.

Comment 23

[Blake Ross]

fixed.

Comment 24

[mdimitrio]

What about the "and in new tab" part? New bug?