Closed Bug 164990 Opened 22 years ago Closed 22 years ago

command-clicking a bookmark should open a new tab or window

Categories

(Camino Graveyard :: Bookmarks, enhancement)

PowerPC
macOS
enhancement
Not set
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

VERIFIED FIXED

People

(Reporter: ralphnumbers, Assigned: sfraser_bugs)

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Details

Command-clicking a bookmark (or a page in the history) in the toolbar or the sidebar should open a new tab or window with the bookmark (acording to the user's prefrences), just as command clicking a link on a page does.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 89922 ***
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 22 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
bug 89922 is for mozilla, not chimera (which implements bookmarks differently), so reopening. will check to see if there's chimera bug for this.
Status: RESOLVED → UNCONFIRMED
Resolution: DUPLICATE → ---
couldn't find existing bug for this, so confirming as rfe. also see bug 155863 for more tab-oriented mouseclick options.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Ever confirmed: true
I think command-selecting a bookmaerk menu item should also spawn a new tab or a new window. If one has a bunch of folders in the bookmarks toolbar, it's currently impossible to open a bookmark from one of those folders directly into a new tab or window. The user needs to first create a tab manually and then select the desired bookmark from a folder menu.
You can drag a bookmark into the space beside the tabs to open a bm in a new tab. Yes, it's not obvious.
Ummm.. I suppose you mean Cmd-double-click because Cmd-Click is used to select multiple items in a non-contiguous manner. That's is an HI standard. OTOH, If it's possible to trap a Cmd-double-click separately from a cmd-single-click then it might be OK to do this (seem slike a a good idea to me;-)
Command-doubble click would be ok in the sidebar, but I'd prefer command-click in the toolbar to maintain behavior consistency with links on pages.
*** Bug 173743 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
The command key alternate behavior to open new window or tab should also be present for if you hit command-enter or command-return from the address bar, or command-select a bookmark from the bookmarks menu (or from the "Go" menu). I thought those were all present in Mozilla. I think in Mozilla you can command-click a link to open it in new window and command-option click it to open it in a new tab. I don't remember for sure, but that would be good consistent behavior to implement with all URL cicks(or double-clicks)/menu-selections/keyboard-entries. I would add that command-clicking on a tab should open it in a new window.
*** Bug 162923 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
If fact, command clicking on home or search or any other toolbar link should also follow same consistent behavior.
Fixed. Command-clicked bookmarks (on the toolbar, or in the sidebar) open in a new tab now, if the pref is set.
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 22 years ago22 years ago
Resolution: --- → FIXED
if you have the pref to open links in new tabs enabled, this works fine: cmd-clicking a link in the toolbar opens it in a new tab, as does cmd-double-clicking a link in the bookmarks sidebar. however, if your pref is set to open in a new window instead, this doesn't work. filed bug 181007. gonna verify this one, though: tested on 10.2.2 with 2002.11.19.11.
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
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