806258 - Help links on Enter Bug page should open in new tab

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(bugzilla.mozilla.org :: User Interface, enhancement)

Description

[Jesse Ruderman]

The help links like "Severity" (link to https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/page.cgi?id=fields.html#bug_severity) should open in a new tab.

Having your half-entered bug page navigate to a help page is disconcerting, at best.

Comment 1

[Frédéric Buclin]

I'm pretty sure you know how to open a link in a new tab by default (middle-click). I don't consider this as dataloss because clicking the Back button will bring you everything back.

Comment 2

[David Lawrence [:dkl]]

Still sounds like a sensible thing to happen for "help" related links and also adds a small bit of convenience. Moving over to BMO for a possible customization.

Comment 3

[David Lawrence [:dkl]]

Attachment: Patch to open new tab when field links are selected (v1)

This patch is against bmo/4.2 only as I don't see the need to backport to 4.0 Also this incorporates upstream patch from bug 286374.

dkl

Comment 4

[:glob ✱]

Comment on attachment 677038 [details] [diff] [review]
Patch to open new tab when field links are selected (v1)

Review of attachment 677038 [details] [diff] [review]:
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currently page.cgi?id=fields.html throws:
  file error - recursion into 'global/field-descs.none.tmpl'
the fix is to remove
  [% USE Bugzilla %]
from extensions/BMO/template/en/default/hook/bug/field-help-end.none.tmpl
which we may as well do here.

this changes the default for all labels to open in a new window, except for keywords, importance, milestone, and assigned to. it also introduces an inconsistency on list/edit-multiple, where only keywords is opening in a new window.

this patch introduces trailing whitespace, please remove.

Comment 5

[Emma Humphries ☕️🎸🧞‍♀️✨ (she/they) [:emceeaich] (Pacific Time) use needinfo]

Nobody's followed up on this in seven years, I'm closing it.