1171093 - Right-clicking on link brings up context-menu AND opens link

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Core :: DOM: Events, defect, P5)

Description

[OJ]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/38.0
Build ID: 20150525141253

Steps to reproduce:

Go to this webpage and right-click the first link in the article ("Mission Chinese"):

http://www.grubstreet.com/2015/06/silicon-valley-fake-meat-burger.html

(Tested in safe-mode.)






Actual results:

This brings up the context-menu (as expected), but it also opens the link (which shouldn't and doesn't happen in other browsers and on most other webpages).


Expected results:

The expected result for me is that only the context menu should open, and this is what happens in for example IE 11 and most other websites in Firefox. I have encountered this behaviour on several webpages now, leading me to belive this is a new bug introduced in v 38.0.5

Just to makle it perfecly clear: It works as expected on most websites. I also haven't tested this in earlier versions of Firefox yet, so it might be an old bug or problem with only certain websites that I just haven't noticed until now.

Comment 1

[Gingerbread Man]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/38.0
20150525141253

The site's opening the link on right-click via JavaScript. It looks like they forgot to disable the context menu.

Comment 2

[OJ]

OK. But a browser shouldn't allow a site to open a link on right-click via JavaScript anyway, IMO.

Links don't open on right-click in Google Chrome v 43.0.2357.81 either, so Firefox appears to be the only modern browser that allows for this to happen...

Comment 3

[u279076]

I'm unable to reproduce this in the latest Nightly nor in Firefox 38. Can you please try running the latest Nightly[1] with a new profile[2] and see if it still reproduces?

1. https://nightly.mozilla.org/
2. https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profile-manager-create-and-remove-firefox-profiles

Comment 5

[democritus7]

I'm mainly a Seamonkey guy, but I've been trying to put more work on my Firefox browser lately, and found that rightclicking a link doesn't work right. First, the right-click (set up for a right-handed person) should open a context menu. I don't get the context menu, I just get the link opened in the current window.

Second, the absence of the context window means it's multiple clicks harder to bookmark a page. I should just be able to right-click a link and select "bookmark this link" from the context menu, and get it bookmarked. This happens to me using 115.7.0esr (64-bit) Firefox, the version released with current Debian.

Comment 6

[democritus7]

I'm mainly a Seamonkey guy, but I've been trying to put more work on my Firefox browser lately, and found that rightclicking a link doesn't work right. First, the right-click (set up for a right-handed person) should open a context menu. I don't get the context menu, I just get the link opened in the current window.

Second, the absence of the context window means it's multiple clicks harder to bookmark a page. I should just be able to right-click a link and select "bookmark this link" from the context menu, and get it bookmarked. This happens to me using 115.7.0esr (64-bit) Firefox, the version released with current Debian Linux.