Re: [Epiphany] shift-click for download

[Marco Pesenti Gritti <marco gnome org>]

On Wed, 2003-08-13 at 20:26, Alan Horkan wrote:
> On Wed, 13 Aug 2003, Thomas F. O'Connell wrote:
> 
> > Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2003 08:43:19 -0500
> > From: Thomas F. O'Connell <tfo@netcentral.com>
> > To: epiphany@mozdev.org
> > Subject: Re: [Epiphany] shift-click for download
> >
> > For the record, there are (as usual) idiomatic differences among
> > platforms and browsers.
> >
> > The Mac idiom is for Ctrl-click to bring up contextual menus.
> >
> > Under IE (for Windows), Shift-click actually opens the link in a new
> > window. In fact, I'm not sure of a modifier key shortcut for bringing up
> > contextual menus under Windows.
> >
> > I know this is a bigger issue than will be resolved by Epiphany
> > developers, but it's a point worth mentioning, I think.
> 
> It has annoyed me many times when trying to use IE that it behaved
> differently from Mozilla.  The wisest thing to do is probably to follow
> Mozilla's behaviour.
> 
> In mozilla Shift Click gives a save (download) dialog,
> Ctrl+Click opens a new window also if you have a three button (or wheel)
> mouse middle click will open a new window.
> 

The bug was already in bugzilla actually. I added Alan comments there:

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=116809

Marco