1144394 - Right-click context menu is often missing back-button

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Firefox :: Menus, defect)

Description

[Dominik Stadler]

Attachment: firefox_back_missing_in_context_menu.png

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:36.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/36.0
Build ID: 20150224134236

Steps to reproduce:

Browse some pages in a tab and then right click anywhere in the page.


Actual results:

The context-menu that opens is missing the "back" arrow button.
This is happening since the button was introduced a few release back, I still see this on 36.0 on Linux/Ubuntu.


Expected results:

There should be a back-arrow button which performs the same action as the back button in the upper left corner.

Comment 1

[Dominik Stadler]

Attachment: addons.png

Comment 2

[[:Aleksej]]

Can you try reproducing it:
* In Safe mode  https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/troubleshoot-firefox-issues-using-safe-mode
* With a Firefox build from https://www.mozilla.org/
* If it happens with both, with a Nightly build: https://nightly.mozilla.org/  (backup or use a new profile: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profile-manager-create-and-remove-firefox-profiles)
?

Can you find a page pair where it happens consistently?

Comment 3

[Dominik Stadler]

Unfortunately I could not find a way to consistently reproduce it. When I restart the browser, I correctly get the menu for some time, but after using Firefox for some time it disappears and never comes back. 

I saw it on both Windows and Linux machines...

Comment 4

[erik.itland]

I have some feedback: It happens consistently if you select something on the page first.

1. Open a new page
2. Follow a link
3. Right click, find back button
4. Double click a word to select it
5. Right click, verify back buttton is magically missing

Comment 5

[nemo]

It also consistently happens on picture layers (try clicking any image in Wikipedia and then try to use the right click to go back to the article).

This is very annoying; if that feature absolutely can't be relied on, you tend to switch to other methods, but those often don't work either: Alt and left doesn't work on youtube, for example.

The only reliable method is the back button left of the url, but that's rather unconvenient. In short, there should be a reliable keyboard and mouse navigation method. Pages should not be allowed to spoil these.