From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.5+) Gecko/20011009 BuildID: 2001100908 Mail message context (right-click) menu does not appear to have same format as those in browser, ie. there is no 'open in new tab' option. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Open mail/news 2.Go to a message with a URL in (nntp, http, ftp) 3.Right click on link Actual Results: Context menu Expected Results: Context menu with 'Open in new tab' option added Should perhaps be related to browser:tabbed-browsing component.

Bug 101768 (marked dup of 101487) suggested an "open in new tab" context menus, but was marked dup of bug 101487 - Context menus made it into browser only. Related: bug 101955

This is a little more difficult than I thought. I assumed that we could just add in the menu item for Open in new Tab, but the code works differently from Open in new Window. Open in new tab assumes that the message pane is a browser window and tries to make a tab within it. The message pane doesn't like this and seems to do nothing. I had assumed it would do what happens when you just click a link in the message pane, but what happens then is that the mail window appears to try to load the link and when it finds out that it doesn't handle those types of links, it sends it to the (nearest?) open window. I'll keep looking, but any help would be appreciated.

jennifer, could --or should-- this be added?

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I think this would be really cool. I don't see this stated explicitly in this bug yet, but I would expect that if you chose this menu item, it would find an existing browser window and open it in a new tab in that window and bring that window forward with that tab selected. If there's no browser yet then it would just open a browser window.

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Can I suggest changing this to the appropriate Product and Component: MailNews, Mail FrontEnd? I notice a lot of duplicates have been filed, because people couldn't find this one as it's not where people would look for it.

"open in new tab" in mailnews link context-menus is being implemented in bug 101955, as far as i understand it?

bug 101955 is about middle click, but this one - just regular context menu item after right mouse click.

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I agree with comment #10, to prevent dups it would be helpful to have a MailNews bug on this. Would it make sense to reopen a duplicate with a good title and mailnews categories, and mark it as depending on this bug?

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chg summary based on duplicates

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A patch which fixes this is in bug 148974.

Taking...

Fix checked in.

OK using nov20 commercial trunk: win98, mac OS 10.2, linux rh8 Open in new tab is present in message pane link context menu, works and opens link in a new tab in browser window.

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