Does Seamonkey support Open text as hyperlink?

[vazhavandan]

I am not able to use Open text as hyperlink in Seamonkey
Is this feature available?
If available how can I enable it?
The features seems to readily available in Firefox and Opera browsers.
Firefox demo screenshot

Opera demo screenshot

No Support in Seamonkey

[-Px-]

Afair, it doesn't supported now, and I even saw bug for implementing that but don't remember it's number...

[vazhavandan]

too bad
when i tried to search for the bug i found this addon and though it said it was incompatible i force installed and it works well.i submitted the compatibility report too

[therube]

Fetch Text URL works. And is better then what is implemented in FF.


https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/447/presences/

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KB: Text links

[vazhavandan]

Fetch Text URL works. And is better then what is implemented in FF.


https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/447/presences/

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KB: Text links

Thanks for recommending Fetch Text URL. It is very cool in that it allows the user to configure the options like "new tab","same tab" etc.Would help save some real estate in context menu

[vazhavandan]

I found that after selecting the text link if we press the "page scroller" on the mouse it opens the url in the same tab
if we do the same by clicking on ctrl button on keyboard it opens url in new tab
Regular usage of this may feature may destroy your mouse scroll

[therube]

I found that after selecting the text link if we press the "page scroller"...

I don't understand?
With which extension does this happen?
And it is not some other extension that is causing it to occur?

[vazhavandan]

No addons required
By selecting the link in the form of text and clicking on the scroller in a scroll mouse we can open the links
Select and click using the red scroll in this image

[Ztruker]

Doesn't work that way for me.

[vazhavandan]

rephrasing. Do normal select of the text urls and just click on the stroller instead of rotating it

[therube]

> Doesn't work that way for me.

Ditto.

> Do normal select of the text urls and just click on the stroller instead of rotating it.

Thinking either you've got another extension that is causing it to happen for you, or there is some mouse setting that you have assigned that causes it.

[vazhavandan]

I will try in a new profile(in linux) and report back whether an addon is causing it.
I don't see this behaviour on windows version
Maybe it is OS dependant
Update1:-One user using Gentoo has reported this function in Firefox long time ago viewtopic.php?f=38&t=89117
Update2:- I checked in Linux and i confirm that the feature this(open text links as through clicking scroll button) exists and it seems to be a Linux only feature

[James]

Update2:- I checked in Linux and i confirm that the feature this(open text links as through clicking scroll button) exists and it seems to be a Linux only feature

While the two clipboards on Linux is far more useful compared to Windows I do not get this feature on recent Firefox Nightly nor on SeaMonkey 2.15 or 2.11.

[vazhavandan]

I also confirm that "middlemouse.contentLoadURL" flag does indeed toggle this behaviour in SeaMonkey 2.15 on Linux atleast
I found no changes in behaviour on a Windows machine

[Andy Boze]

It changed behavior on my Windows machine. But not how I would want. With the preference set to True, middle click no longer works to close a tab.