647909 - Add "Open in New Window" to context menu for selected text

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: Menus, enhancement)

Description

[John Van Essen]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:2.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:2.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0

After selecting text in a displayed page, the current context-sensitive right-button menu includes a "Search Google for 'selected text'" option.  Very handy.  It would also be handy to have a "Open Link in New Window" option if the selected text begins with "http://" or "www.".  Many sites do not convert URLs into links and it would be convenient to have this shortcut, eliminating the copy'n'paste into the address bar.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to CNET April Fool's page
2. Choose a URL in a comment and select the text
3. Right-click on the mouse
Actual Results:  
No option to Open Link in New Window


Expected Results:  
I'd like to see a Open Link In New Window option.

Comment 1

[Kai Liu]

This feature was added for Firefox 4; see bug 454518 and bug 515512.

If I select this text...
example.org/foobar

I see Open Link, Open Link in New Tab, and Open Link in New Window in my context menu.  The heuristic used to determine whether to interpret text as a link is rather conservative, so that might be why you are not seeing it for some URLs.  If there is a specific case where it is not interpreting text as a link and you think it should, please specify that.

(Also, a shameless plug: there is an addon, QuickDrag, that lets you do this with a drag gesture instead of using the context menu, and its heuristics are much less conservative than the ones used for the Firefox context menu.)

Comment 2

[John Van Essen]

I just installed FF4 on my iMac and didn't think to check it there before submitting (I've been using FF3 on my Windows PC).  Sorry to have wasted your time.