565566 - Support opening in new windows when qualifiers are active for form submits and searches

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 17754

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[John Wayne Hill (UX Intern)]

(Note: this is filed as part of the “Paper Cut” bugs — we assume that there may be multiple existing bugs on this. Please make them block this bug, and we will de-dupe if they are indeed exactly the same. Thanks!)

To reproduce:
1. Open a new bug or other form
2. go to the search bar in the chrome
3. you should be able to hold down "CMD" and then search to open the search in a new window

Recommendation:
Holding down "CMD" and clicking any link,form,submit should open the results in a new tab.

Currently Safari does this.

Comment 1

[Roman]

This should also work for javascript links - it can be frustrating when such links either won't open at all in a new tab, or open but show something else.

Comment 2

[Roger Lynn]

This is a regression from Netscape 4. It used to be possible to open form submits in a new window.

Comment 3

[Jesse Ruderman]

Cmd+Enter in the search bar is covered by bug 237027.  The search bar in chrome is a special case where Alt+Enter rather than Cmd+Enter opens a new tab, for hysterical reasons.

Cmd+Enter in web page forms is covered by bug 17754.  This isn't controversial, just hard.

Comment 4

[Chris Lawson (gone)]

(In reply to comment #3)
> Cmd+Enter in web page forms is covered by bug 17754.  This isn't controversial,
> just hard.

I dunno, looks controversial to me.

Comment 5

[Evan Tseng [:evanxd]]

The only one unresolved use case(open in a new window/tab) is submitting form in a new window/tab. So this bug is now a duplicate of Bug 17754.