Firefox/Feature Brainstorming:URL Handling
Get URL of current page
Make non-href'ed links openable in new tab etc by key short cut
Sometimes web pages contain effective links (i.e. something like http://www.foo.bar.com) without this being encoded in html, so it is not directly clickable. Instead of going the procedure
- select link text
- Ctrl-C
- New tab
- Focus in address bar
- Ctrl-V
- Return
it would be nice to rather do
- select link text
- Ctrl-...
and the link opens already in a new tab. Here "..." should be a carefully chosen letter on the keyboard.
(possibly implementable by addon)
--ThomasP, Jan 2009
Make entries in the forward/backward button history list right-clickable
Entries in that history list should not be just left-clickable (then guiding the current tab to that location), but give more actions in a context menu - maybe simply the ones appearing in the context menu of a link.
Advantage: Imagine you are filling out a form as part of a registration or similar linear process, and you come at a page where you want to go back one page to (re-)look something up for the filling out. Then you could go to the back button history, choose the previous page and on it right click to open it in a new tab.
A further functionality related to this is cloning a tab (together with its history). This could be added to that context menu and to the context menu on the tab heads.
--ThomasP, Jan 2009