Closed Bug 1393349 Opened 7 years ago Closed 7 years ago

allow open new tab from address bar

Categories

(WebExtensions :: Untriaged, enhancement, P5)

Product:
WebExtensions
Component:
Untriaged
Version:
57 Branch
Type:
enhancement

Tracking

(firefox57 wontfix)

Status:
RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1394304
Tracking Flags:
Tracking Status
firefox57 --- wontfix

People

(Reporter: geobert, Unassigned)

References

(Blocks 1 open bug)

Details

(Whiteboard: [design-decision-needed])

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:57.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/57.0 Build ID: 20170823100553 Steps to reproduce: Not a bug, a feature request: allow someway (natively or through webextensions) to open a new tab by default from location bar. Basically, invert Alt-Enter behavior (Enter = new tab, Alt-Enter = current tab). I tried to make a webextension for that, but the WebNavigation API does not allow this.
Severity: normal → enhancement
Component: Untriaged → Location Bar
Blocks: webextensions-additional-apis
Component: Location Bar → WebExtensions: Untriaged
Product: Firefox → Toolkit
Summary: open new tab from address bar → allow open new tab from address bar
Whiteboard: [design-decision-needed]
status-firefox57: --- → wontfix
Priority: -- → P5
This is very important for me. It seems like one very easy fix would be to provide the TransitionType to onBeforeNavigate. It's provided to onCommitted, but not onBeforeNavigate. I don't really see why not and it prevents doing a lot of very useful things.
Blocks: 1370388
Blocks: 1226546
Blocks: 1226546
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 7 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
No longer blocks: 1226546
Product: Toolkit → WebExtensions
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