Bug 4856 – Plain text fields should not have "Make Link" in their contextual menu

• Status: RESOLVED
• Resolution: FIXED
• Component: Forms

A "Make Link" item shows up in the contextual menu of a plain text field if the selected text is a URL. The 
item does not belong there, since you cannot do make a link in a plain text field.

To reproduce: open attachment 2978 [details] in Safari, select all text in the text field and control-click the 
selected text.

Expected: no "Make Link" item in the contextual menu.

Actual: "Make Link" item shows up in the contextual menu.

[Eric Seidel (no email)]

Hum... too bad there is no way to make a layout test for this.  I wonder if this is a form control issue or an 
editing issue.  Probably form controls, in which case this would be in render_forms.cpp I think.

Woops, the testcase to open is attachment 2987 [details].

I think this is basically an AppKit issue: open Interface Builder and create a window with a text field. Enter 
test mode, type an HTTP URI into the text field, select all and control-click.

In TOT (with Safari 2.0.4) there is no longer a Make Link item but there are two consecutive separators between Go To Address and Copy.