1385202 - Need a way to manage context menu items.

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox :: Menus, defect)

Description

[avada]

With the XUL extension phaseout, such addons as Menu Wizard is impossible. So now items are added in whatever order the extensions are installed (aka randomly), wherever the extensions put them. (Assuming they can use multiple menus)

So there's a need to hide and move the menu items internally by firefox.

Even now with the two webextensions I came in contact with that have menu items I have the problem, because Menu Wizard doesn't support them. So their items are just at the bottom in the order they were installed.

Comment 2

[YF (Yang)]

> hide and move

by user.

Comment 3

[Andy McKay]

If you want a user to be able to move context menus, then thats a Firefox feature. For WebExtensions that's bug 1325758 as already mentioned. I've moved this over to Firefox.

Comment 4

[YF (Yang)]

It may be a context menus management APIs by WebExtensions, although this probably be "Not in scope".


For example, custom events to add-ons and uses response (event propagation) mechanism to decide menus show and position.

Comment 5

[Andy McKay]

Then ok, this is out of scope of WebExtensions.

Comment 6

[avada]

(In reply to YF (Yang) from comment #4)
> It may be a context menus management APIs by WebExtensions, although this
> probably be "Not in scope".
> 
> 
> For example, custom events to add-ons and uses response (event propagation)
> mechanism to decide menus show and position.


(In reply to Andy McKay [:andym] from comment #5)
> Then ok, this is out of scope of WebExtensions.

So instead of wontfixing why not move it back to the appropriate firefox component? And name it back to it "Need a way to manage context menu items.". 

I originally filed it in  Firefox / Menus. You guys kicked the bug around and twisted it and renamed it until you decided it doesn't fit where you kicked it... 

(Granted, you decided against an API, but this wasn't about an API specifically.)

Comment 7

[Justin Dolske [:Dolske]]

Just to be clear -- AIUI this bug is _not_ about adding WebExtension support for allowing addons to control the ordering of menus, but about having Firefox itself provide UI for the user to customize the ordering of menu items.

I don't think that's something we're ever likely to implement given the cost/benefit and other priorities. So calling this WONTFIX, sorry.