643186 - "Open" should be first entry in context menu for links

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 750135

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

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User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:2.0b11) Gecko/20110209 Firefox/4.0b11 SeaMonkey/2.1b2
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Android; Linux armv7l; rv:2.0b13pre) Gecko/20110318 Firefox/4.0b13pre Fennec/4.0b6pre

On my HTC Evo (model PC36100) running HTC's Android 2.2,
If I trigger the context menu for a link on a page and then decide I want the default tap action of going to that page, there's no way to do so.  I have to dismiss the context menu then tap on the link. By comparison, the stock browser's context menu has the default Open action at the top.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Press and hold on a link in Fennec
Actual Results:  
Context menu appears with destination URL and the actions
  Open Link in New Tab
  Save Link
  Share Link

Expected Results:  
Open should be the first item.

I'd also really like Copy link URL (or Copy Link Location as desktop Firefox calls it) in the context menu for links.

I don't know if Android guidelines guidelines suggest the first item in a press-and-hold context menu should match the tap action, but it seems a good convention, it's the only way to find what a tap does in a tooltip-less environment.

Comment 1

[Matt Brubeck (:mbrubeck)]

In the meantime, here are extensions to add these commands:

https://addons.mozilla.org/mobile/addon/open-link/
https://addons.mozilla.org/mobile/addon/copy-link/