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Bug 50321 - VisualEditor: Ctrl-Click / middle-click on a link should open it in another window; on an image, should open the image's description page
VisualEditor: Ctrl-Click / middle-click on a link should open it in another w...
Status: ASSIGNED
Product: VisualEditor
Classification: Unclassified
ContentEditable (Other open bugs)
unspecified
All All
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: Editing team bugs – take if you're interested!
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: 64974 (view as bug list)
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Blocks: ve-linkediting
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Reported: 2013-06-27 21:08 UTC by Raimond Spekking
Modified: 2014-07-01 11:27 UTC (History)
8 users (show)

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Description Raimond Spekking 2013-06-27 21:08:17 UTC 
Middle mouse click on external links does not work to open an external link in a new browser tab. 

Alternative: Right mouse click to show the context menu with "Open link in new tab/window" does not work too.

Tested with Firefox 22.
Comment 1 Raimond Spekking 2013-07-02 20:37:25 UTC 
Some more details: 

* Middle mouse click on internal text links: OK (but mouse cursor wrong)

* Middle mouse click on images: NOT OK
* Middle mouse click on external links: NOT OK
Comment 2 Chris McKenna 2013-09-09 11:54:53 UTC 
The mouse cursor not changing is bug 50741 

CTRL+click / right click and open in a new window/tab does work for internal and external links. It does not work for images.
Comment 3 James Forrester 2014-06-12 06:01:46 UTC 
*** Bug 64974 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 4 Ed Sanders 2014-07-01 11:27:49 UTC 
Middle click/ctrl click on *content editable* links in browser specific behaviour, and isn't necessarily going to be the same as for read-only links. Rather than override the browser's default behaviour we will provide a consistent way to follow links with bug 54759.

Image nodes are protected from editing with highlights so we're not going to able to provide the normal context menu. I can't see a compelling use case, but such functionality may be available in the image dialog in the future.

Suggest wontfix for this.
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