750135 - Link click-and-hold menu should have an "open link" option.

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[Chris Pearce [:cpearce (Not reading bugmail)]]

The menu which shows up when you click and hold a link in Fennec should have a "open tab" option.

Current options are "Open link in new tab", "Share link" and Bookmark link".

Often I find that I accidentally manage to click and hold rather than click, as it's often hard to figure out where a thumb-touch-click is going to be delivered because my thumb is so much larger than the link I'm trying to click on. I often end up trying to click on a link (to open it directly), only to have this menu pop up, and so I have to click back and try again in order to achieve what I want.

Adding an "open tab" option would stream line the UI, and make it more forgiving.

Comment 1

[Kevin Brosnan [Ex-Mozilla]]

What is the behavior of 'Open tab'? Do you mean 'open link' in current tab?

Comment 2

[Chris Pearce [:cpearce (Not reading bugmail)]]

Yes, sorry for the confusion.

Comment 4

[Peter Wu]

Please consider adding this menu item, it is a major usability issue. When a page is not zoomed in, I long-press a link and expect an option to open the selected link in a new tab. While we are it, is it possible to show the selected URL in the menu as well, just like the stock browser?

Comment 5

[Aaron Train [:aaronmt]]

The current URL is already shown in the popup menu, unless you mean something else.

Also, didn't Ian/Madhava/Brad experiment with solving the issue here with the magnified view (fisheye lens thing) over the selected link (like iOS does)?

Comment 6

[Wesley Johnston (:wesj)]

We currently only show the url if there is no title attribute on the link.

Comment 7

[Peter Wu]

Right, I happened to choose a link where the URL did not show up (perhaps because it is too long?)
For example, try the Android link (25MB APK) on http://nightly.mozilla.org/
This is on Beta 17.0

Comment 8

[Mark Capella [:capella]]

Attachment: Patch (v1)

This small patch seems to work ... are we still interested in this?

Comment 9

[Mark Capella [:capella]]

Attachment: Screenshot

Comment 10

[Mark Finkle (:mfinkle) (use needinfo?)]

Personally, I don't want to add this to the context menu. I'd rather find other ways to make "link tapping" easier.

Comment 11

[Mark Finkle (:mfinkle) (use needinfo?)]

If Ian agrees, let's close this bug.

Comment 12

[Mark Capella [:capella]]

Won't hurt my feelings :)

Comment 13

[Ian Barlow (:ibarlow)]

(In reply to Mark Finkle (:mfinkle) from comment #11)
> If Ian agrees, let's close this bug.

I do agree. Our context menus are too huge as it is, and I'd rather explore better ways of supporting link tapping on small links or densely clustered ones.