User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:108.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/108.0

Steps to reproduce:

Set "browser.search.openintab" to True in about:config, open the quick action menu in the address bar.

Actual results:

The Quick Action menu is opened in a new tab.

Expected results:

The quick action menu is not a search request, and it should opened the sub-menu on the same tab.

Opening this menu in a new tab renders the quick access to some of the options proposed in this menu useless. Like, print the page, take a screenshot and view source.

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Edit - reworded/clarification.

I meant:
The quick action menu is not a search request, and it should open the sub-menu in the same tab.

Opening this menu in a new tab renders some of the options proposed in the quick access menu useless. Like, print the page, take a screenshot and view source.

Sorry.

Currently, the actions are performed differently depending on their nature:

• about: pages are opened in new tabs only if the current tab is not about:newtab
• Library, Refresh Firefox and Clear history open pop-ups
• Inspector, Print, Screenshot, View Source are actions for the current tab. Please note that these quick actions act the same as if they were opened from other parts of the browser (eg. context menu -> View Page Source -> opens the source page in a new tab)
• Restart, Update, Open Private Window don't interact with the current tab

In this case, this enhancement is for the about: pages to load in the current tab while "browser.search.openintab" is set to True.

Yes, I don't know the underlying of Firefox so I tried to explain with what I could see. I tried to edit or delete and redo/reword my bug report/enhancement request, but I couldn't find anything to either edit or delete the bug report.

When "browser.search.openintab" is set to true; I understand that clicking the "Favorite" and "History" buttons open in a new tab when I hit them to search something in my history or favorites as both actions will lead to a search. However, I find is odd and counter intuitive that a setting named browser.search.openintab, emphasis on "search", opens a new tab when I request to access the quick "Action (>)" submenu where all quick settings are. The "search" there is just to search in the quick settings, not to do an internet search. Not to mention that search option to look for settings is pretty useless since all the quick actions are displayed in that submenu, and there doesn't seem to have an option to add custom quick action in this sub-menu.
Also, searching directly in the url bar without hitting "favorite" or "History" doesn't even load the search request in a new tab when "browser.search.openintab" is set to true. Only the search bar on the right side has this behavior.