[ext] Stay-Open Menu

[avada]

FFS, they're only interested in implementing a useful feature if they can monkey other browsers: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1673588

Due to FF internal changes, it does not and cannot work on history menus (not the staying open, though you can get the opening in the background in a new tab with middle-click) or in the URLbar drop-down.

Yeah, that's the said part. I'm not interested in bookmarks, I have the sidebar for that... The urlbar would be useful.
I actually commented on the bug for it, I just forgot. Probably because it didn't go anywhere regarding urlbar/history...

Not sure what you mean by middle click. It doesn't work for the neither the urlbar, nor the history menu. And I see no about:config setting to change this.

[custom.firefox.lady]

@avada - Ctrl-Shift-click should open in background tab on the urlbar.

[avada]

@avada - Ctrl-Shift-click should open in background tab on the urlbar.

Should it? It definitely doesn't here. I tried every combination of ctrl/shift and clicking.

Okay. It's working, not sure why it didn't at first. Can't this at least be made to work with plain middle click or ctrl click?

(I'm guessing it's still not possible via an addon, at best via userchrome.js)

[custom.firefox.lady]

@avada - Ctrl-Shift-click should open in background tab on the urlbar.

...Can't this at least be made to work with plain middle click or ctrl click?

(I'm guessing it's still not possible via an addon, at best via userchrome.js)

No idea about userchrome.js, but Bug 1673588 originally dealt with inconsistencies. IIUC tabs opened from urlbar should then open in background by default, with Shift reversing that behavior.

[custom.firefox.lady]

Don't know if anybody still cares, but I gave up on seeing the Location Bar 'stayopen' feature get into Firefox. I've been using a webextension experiment I created for use on my Firefox Nightly. In case anyone's interested, you can find it at https://github.com/tawnC0DE/LocBarUtil

It doesn't actually keep the dropdown menu open, it's just a method to work around the issue. Details at that github site. Issues can either be reported at github or here.

[avada]

Don't know if anybody still cares, but I gave up on seeing the Location Bar 'stayopen' feature get into Firefox. I've been using a webextension experiment I created for use on my Firefox Nightly. In case anyone's interested, you can find it at https://github.com/tawnC0DE/LocBarUtil

It doesn't actually keep the dropdown menu open, it's just a method to work around the issue. Details at that github site. Issues can either be reported at github or here.

I definitely still miss it. I even suggested it to a person helped me with a script, who subsequently also made an attempt to put it into FF. Of course Mozilla couldn't be bothered, so it went nowhere.

I'll check it out. Do I need nightly? I have an older devedition now (v116). Because later ones broke all sorts of things I use.

[avada]

Taking a look at it: I wonder since nightly/devedition is required anyway if a userchrome script couldn't be used to actually leave the location bar results open?

[custom.firefox.lady]

I haven't looked at userchrome.js nor even the relevant Fx code in ages. There is/was Fx location bar menu-closing code scattered here & there so leaving the menu open is/was not nearly as straight-forward as it might seem. There were also different modifiers used for different cases/purposes, so I decided to just work around the mess by saving the results as temporary bookmarks. Figured it would end up less buggy & it's sufficient for my occasional needs.