User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021130 Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021130 Often, an email contains a number of links to the same site or about the same topic. For example, slashdot headlines. Obviously I dont want to open and read them serially. I spend too much time waiting for the slashdot page to load. I want to open about 6 and then start reading the first one while the rest load. But I would like to be able to do that as different tabs in the same window. For example, when I read my daily email on slashdot headlines, I want to right click on the link and open it in a new window. (I can do this now.) While it is loading, I keep reading down thru the email, to find other interesting topics. When I find the next one, I want to right click and tell it to open as a new tab in the same window as the first link. Then I read down some more and do it again, eventually opening all the links I am interested in from that email before I start to read any of them. Then I open up the window and start reading the first one as the other ones are possibly still loading. I see a couple possibilities on the interface for this. 1) Associate each email with a "root" window and a "last" window. The root window is the first window opened, or if that one is closed, the earliest opened one still active. Then have the following right click options. a) open as tab in root window b) open as tab in last window c) open in new window (have now) 2) Pick one of the above two concepts, a) or b) and just add that option. 3) Just add an "open as new tab" option that opens the link in the uppermost window, or the one with the most recent focus, or something. But I think this would end up opening links as tabs into a lot of windows I didnt intend, so I dont like tis one. The "open as a tab in..." option should always be linked to a window that was opened from the email. The criteria "uppermost window," "last window with focus" etc would sometimes but not always fit that cirteria. In any case, this scenario should allow for me to get interrupted during processing my email from slashdot, do something else, and continue to be able to open links as new tabs in existing windows where the previous links were opened. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3.

Please always check recent builds before filing a bug or RFE. 'Most' of what you're requesting here has been working since just after 1.2 The idea of a root window is IMO needlessly confusing; regular use does not see you constantly switching between many different windows so that tabs from email end up in different windows, and if it does, remembering about the last used window before switching back to mailnews shouldn't be too hard. Middle-clicking links from email simply opens them as tabs in the last used window, so that's both option 1 b) and option 3 - if you open the first link as a new window, that will thus have been the last used, and so all other links that you middle-click open in that new window. Uhm... I suggest you try a recent nightly to see how things work now. (Make sure to back up your profile and/or to create a new one, as with all the bayesian spam filter work you might run into problems switching back to 1.2.1 if you'd want to do that.) Then depending on how well the option of opening mailnews links as tabs works for you, mark this as WORKSFORME, or clarify exactly what extra functionality you think mailnews should have.

duping. Reporter: the original bug was fixed late november. Try a more recent build to see if the problem still persists. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 104380 ***

marking verified as a duplicate

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