[ubuntu-uk] 11.04 and Firefox 4

[Colin Law]

On 23 May 2011 12:08, Colin Law <clanlaw at googlemail.com> wrote:
> On 23 May 2011 11:40, alan c <aeclist at candt.waitrose.com> wrote:
>> Trying out Ubuntu 11.04 still an dI noticed something in Firefox which
>> puzzles me.
>>
>> My usual action with my bookmarks list is to right click in the list to open
>> the chosen bookmark item in a new tab.
>>
>> But I do not seem to be able to do this in Firefox 4. Am I missing something
>> here? Is there a function which replaces bookmarks going chosen going into
>> tabs?
>>
>> My immediate workaround of the apparently lost feature is to first open an
>> empty tab then choose the bookmark, but this is an -extra- click. What
>> gives?
>
> On FF 4.0.1 on Ubuntu 10.10 using Ubuntu Classic desktop, when I right
> click on a bookmark in the Bookmarks drop down menu (I assume that is
> what you are referring to) I get a context menu with Open, Open in new
> tab etc.  When I do the same in Unity or Unity-2D it just goes to the
> link immediately.  This would appear to be a bug in Unity.  I cannot
> find it in Launchpad however.

See
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libdbusmenu/+bug/748850
which covers both right and middle click.  It was supposed to have
been fixed a couple of days ago so presumably the fix will appear
soon.

Colin