88518 - [RFE] Recognize urls in web pages that are not links

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 15176

(SeaMonkey :: General, enhancement)

Description

[Lasse Marøen]

In mailnews urls in a mail are recognized and made clickable. It would be nice
to have this in browser too. 

Lot's of sites, especially news sites using poor publishing systems, have urls
within a text but have not made them into links. Mozilla should recognize those
and make them into links. I'm not sure how they should be represented visually.
Maybe they could get the link color only when mousing over them, combined with a
special cursor to indicate that they are not normal links.

Comment 1

[Henrik Gemal]

this *must* be invalid! html is html. There might be a reason to not make a 
link clickable.

Comment 2

[Lasse Marøen]

Yes, there might be, but that doesn't stop me from performing the tedious task
of selecting the url, copying, pasting into the url bar and clicking "go". That
is what I'd like to make easier. 

Compromise: How about a right-click option saying something like "go to
selected". If the selected text is an url it is treated as such. If it is a mail
adress it performs a mailto. If it is neither the text is submitted for a search.

Comment 3

[Henrik Gemal]

There's already a go that talks about the "go to selected url"

Comment 4

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Duplicate of "[FEATURE] Enhanced context menu for selected text"

See also bug 39042

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 15176 ***

Comment 5

[timeless]

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