694032 - Choosing an item from history should open a new tab instead of replace the active

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(SeaMonkey :: Tabbed Browser, enhancement)

Description

[stefan.blumenrath]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:7.0.1) Gecko/20110928 SeaMonkey/2.4.1
Build ID: 20110928161145

Steps to reproduce:

I left-clicked an item on the historylist


Actual results:

The active tab became replaced by the history item.


Expected results:

A new tab should have been opened. At least there should be an option in the Tab-Browsing-Preferences to do so.

Comment 1

[therube]

No reason for a left-click to do anything but what it does IMO.
So the only merit for this bug would be as a RFE.

So, if there were to exist a preference such as: browser.history.opentabforleftclick

Comment 2

[Philip Chee]

Sounds like extension fodder to me.

Comment 3

[stefan.blumenrath]

@comment#1:
I agree that a pref would help, maybe a checkbox in the tab-browsing preferences could be useful, too.

@comment#2:
I don't think that this should be handled in an extension, I've got the choice whether bookmarks should replace the existing tabs or not, so why shouldn't I have the choice at this point.

Actually, I wrote a blogpost in a textfield, and was not amused at all when that happened.(In reply to Philip Chee from comment #2)

Comment 4

[Phoenix]

What about middle-click?

Comment 5

[Philip Chee]

> What about middle-click?
Sounds reasonable. =>ENHANCEMENT.

Comment 6

[therube]

As far as I can tell, a middle-click of an item on the History list did at the time, & does still, open the item in a new tab, so no reason for "enhancement".