Stay-Open Menu -- Firefox Extension

Stay-Open Menu is a extension created for Firefox® which facilitates opening multiple tabs from the Bookmarks Menu and various other bookmark/history/tab related dropdown menus. It keeps the menu open when middle-clicking (optionally ctrl-clicking) and is especially handy for RSS feed (Live Bookmark) items.

Screenshots of typical extension use

Stay-Open Menu works with Firefox 3.0 and newer; it is not compatible with older Firefox versions. For use with Firefox 2, you might want to try the no longer maintained middleclicknocollapse extension currently hosted at remarqs.net. I am in no way associated with middleclicknocollapse or it's author, but I have used it in the past and it worked fine for me.

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Usage Notes

Notes on the Boox-related feature (added in 1.5.1)

Details of how Stay-Open Menu works on Smart Location Bar

Known Issues

Bug: Depending upon the presence/absence/number of rss feeds available on the website in the tab, one or more 'Subscrible to This Page' items may appear/disappear on the Bookmarks Menu. These may be added/removed by Firefox itself (or another extension). If this occurs while Stay-Open Menu has kept the menu open, the hilite gets out of sync with the mouse pointer. An option to always hide these items (on Windows/Linux) has been added to Stay-Open Menu 1.5.4 which prevents the bug's occurrence. In Firefox 4.0 , there is only one such item that gets changed/grayed as appropriate.

Bug: The 'All tabs' menu should also stay open for Ctrl-click. I've not yet found any way to implement that. Considering the multiple methods of finding/handling tabs in Firefox 4.0, the All tabs menu functionality added by Stay-Open Menu may eventually be dropped entirely.

Bug: If Ctrl-clk option is turned off, Ctrl-clk on a folder should not keep menu open. (Low priority; should be fixed eventually.)

Incompatibility: If you have installed the Show Keywords extension, there is a conflict that causes multiple selections from the Smart Location Bar, to not work correctly (the dropdown will not stay open). Because Firefox 3.5 has Show Keywords functionality built-in, I recommend uninstalling (or disabling) the 'Show Keywords' extension, if you are using Firefox 3.5 or later, to avoid the conflict.

Incompatibility (minor): Personal Menu extension also has a keep open on middle-click feature. If you wish to use both extensions together (for Stay-Open Menu's additional capabilities), keep the option in Personal Menu (Miscellaneous Tab) 'Close menu after middle-clicking bookmarks' turned ON (checked). This prevents a conflict which causes middle-clicking a bookmarks folder to have no effect. (It should open all bookmarks in the folder in new tabs.)

Note: Some other extensions that Stay-Open Menu has previously added support for (see above), do not (as of release date of 1.5.5) work properly with Firefox 4 (even without Stay-Open Menu installed) and thus could not be tested to determine whether Stay-Open Menu still properly supports them. Also note that Firefox 4 includes a "Bookmarks Menu Button" by default (preventing the necessity of support for those added by other extensions).

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