Comment 7 for bug 393791

Binary package hint: firefox-3.0

In Firefox 3.0.11 on Jaunty, I frequently open links by right-clicking them (the middle button stopped working in the Jaunty upgrade) and hitting "t" for "Open Link in New Tab."

I'm used to doing this in Firefox and Galeon. In Galeon it works for bookmarks (and bookmark folders) as well. But in Firefox, for a bookmark, it selects "Cut" instead. Which means that my bookmark is gone!

There is a way to repair the damage, by opening the bookmarks again, right-clicking them again, and selecting "Paste." But:

1. There is no Undo for the Cut.
2. The Paste option from the regular menu bar doesn't work for this.
3. If I copy something unrelated, in my case a piece of text from a web page, the bookmark is also lost from the clipboard.
4. It doesn't even seem to work like a proper "Cut": if I paste it into a text field I get the link, not the bookmark as a whole.

Why should there even be Cut and Paste options for bookmarks? For me a "Copy Link Location" similar to (and with the same keyboard shortcut as) the one on a regular link would do. Or if we have to have it for moving things around like we do with files, it'd make more sense IMHO to make it behave as it does with files in Nautilus—keep the original in place unless and until I paste it somewhere where it makes the original unnecessary.