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Bug 792054 - Middle-click 'open a new tab' to search for primary clipboard content on the web
Middle-click 'open a new tab' to search for primary clipboard content on the web
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 706730
Product: epiphany
Classification: Core
Component: Tabs
3.26.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: Epiphany Maintainers
Epiphany Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2017-12-29 19:54 UTC by tichun
Modified: 2018-02-11 19:15 UTC
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Description tichun 2017-12-29 19:54:55 UTC 
Selecting text and then pressing middle mouse button on 'open a new tab' has to open a search query for the selection.

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=706730
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=149715

It is as important one as middle click paste elsewhere... how come it was called 'obscure'?
Better to open a new tab and then mouse over the url bar to be able to do it?
Usability suffers.
Comment 1 tichun 2017-12-29 21:41:40 UTC 
Sorry for the terrible quality of this report.
Comment 2 Michael Catanzaro 2017-12-30 00:12:45 UTC 
I don't understand. Why would you click "open a new tab" if you want to do a search query?
Comment 3 Jonathan Kang 2018-01-02 07:26:59 UTC 
(In reply to Michael Catanzaro from comment #2)
> I don't understand. Why would you click "open a new tab" if you want to do a
> search query?

I think he is asking for the feature that one can search the selected text when
he/she does a middle mouse click. Then one doesn't have to right click and click
"Search the web for ...", which is a bit more convenient. Just like opening an link in a new tab.
Comment 4 Michael Catanzaro 2018-01-02 15:48:32 UTC 
I don't think we should implement that, since other browsers do not implement it, and we don't want to confuse users. It's not so hard to right click.
Comment 5 Jan-Michael Brummer 2018-02-10 21:42:19 UTC 
I agree with you. this shouldn't be implemented.
Comment 6 Michael Catanzaro 2018-02-11 19:13:32 UTC 
OK. Unless I've misunderstood the request, I think this would be confusing to users who middle click on selected text accidentally, so I'm going to close this.
Comment 7 Michael Catanzaro 2018-02-11 19:15:40 UTC 
Actually, I did misunderstand. The suggestion is that middle-clicking on the new tab button (in the tab bar) should automatically search for any currently-selected text. That seems fine to me. But it's a duplicate of bug #706730, as mentioned in the first comment.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 706730 ***