Closed
Bug 1360958
Opened 8 years ago
Closed 8 years ago
Support openerId in web extensions when middle-clicking to open a new tab
Categories
(WebExtensions :: General, defect)
WebExtensions
General
Tracking
(Not tracked)
RESOLVED
DUPLICATE
of bug 1238314
People
(Reporter: n.nethercote, Unassigned)
Details
I'm a long-term user of the Tree Style Tab extension. I've been trying out the new Tree Tabs web extension (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tree-tabs/) in anticipation of Firefox 57. It's not a bad start but has some shortcomings due to web extension limitations.
In particular when I middle-click on a link, I want the new tab to appear as a child of the current tab. But when I open a new tab with Ctrl-T or a bookmark, I want the new tab to appear as a top-level tab at the bottom of the tabs. (Tree Style Tab supports this behaviour.) However, Firefox web extensions apparently cannot distinguish between middle-clicking and the other cases. The author of Tree Tabs told me this:
> There is no way to distinguish where tab came from in current API. In
> Chrome/Opera/Vivaldi tab opened from middle click gives openerId, Firefox
> does not.
So it sounds like there is already a mechanism that could be used to support this feature, but Firefox doesn't implement it. Please consider doing so!
Reporter | ||
Comment 1•8 years ago
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It's possible this is a dup of bug 1238314.
Updated•6 years ago
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Product: Toolkit → WebExtensions
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