638845 - Message Reader: Implement right-click context menu "(TB-)Quickfilter for [selected text]" (for selected text in message reader or header)

Status: NEW

(Thunderbird :: Message Reader UI, enhancement)

Description

[mmalis]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:2.0b12) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0b12
Build Identifier: 3.1.8

Feature Request:

Currently : When viewing messages, highlight text, copy/paste this into the "Filter these messages ..." field to view messages with requested text.

Feature Request : When viewing message, highlight some text in message. Can there be a right click option to automatically populate the "Filter these messages ..." field? It would say something like : Filter on "selected text"

Note: This is similar to Firefox behavior for Google searches. Highlight some text, right click -> Search Google for "selected text"

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Thomas D. (:thomas8)]

Yeah, this makes sense to me.

We already have "Search [Open search search provider] for [selected text]" on the context menu of selected text in message reader.
So interestingly, while we offer searching *the web* for selected text, we don't offer using TB to search for other messages that contain selected text.

If there are no duplicates, this should be confirmed.

Comment 2

[Thomas D. (:thomas8)]

dupe of bug 635403?