127909 - [UX] Fully disable links in Print Preview (no context menu, no tooltips, no color change on click)

Status: NEW

(Core :: Print Preview, defect, P4)

Description

[ajbu]

Build  2002022603 on Windows XP Pro
In Print Preview, links change color when clicked, and right-mouse contextmenu 
for links shows when clicking on link with right mouse button. This gives some 
strange results when for example choosing 'open in new tab' from preview.
This might be confusing when doing this by mistake.

Duplicate:
1) Open a webpage with links
2) Open Print Preview
3) Click on a link, or click on it with the right mouse button

Expected result: nothing should happen
Actual result: Link changes color or context menu for links opens.

Comment 1

[rods (gone)]

I am not seeing the ccolor change, there was a recent fix for that. but the
context menu shouldn't show up

Comment 2

[sujay]

ajbu, please provide better steps to see the problem...thanks

Comment 3

[ajbu]

The coloring of links when clicked might be stylesheet related. When testing 
this on another page this isn’t visible. Link contextmenu is always visible. I 
also tested this on Windows 98 (dualboot) with the same effect.

Steps to reproduce:
1)	Start Mozilla (now running build 2002022703)
2)	Goto the Mozilla homepage http://www.mozilla.org
3)	Choose File/Print Preview
->	Mozilla.org page shows up in Print Preview
4)	Click on the ‘Mozilla Developer Day’ link. 

-> The link text turns black, the underlining turns red.
-> Click with the rightmousebutton on the link. Context menu for links shows. 
Choose ‘Open in new tab’

Hope this helps.

Comment 4

[rods (gone)]

I'll quickly look into this later, but I have user input turned in the style sheet.

The context menu issue us now bug 128449

Comment 5

[Chu Alan #2]

reporter: do you mean A:active can be triggered when the user mousedown on a
link in print preview ?

Comment 6

[andrew]

I am seeing a similar behaviour on WinXP when viewing 
dunfermlineathletic.rivals.net in Mozilla 0.9.9. When in print preview mode, 
the text is underlined in the color specified in the style sheet, even though 
the text itself is in black. Moving the mouse over the text links changes the 
underline color to black (most of the time). Sometimes moving the mouse over 
the link does not change the underline color, but most times it does.

Also, you will see from the attachment that it does not handle the menu bars 
on Rivals.net very well at all.

The attachment below shows the page as rendered by Moz 0.9.9's print preview 
function on WinXP. The second attachment shows what the page looked like in 
the browser itself.

Comment 7

[andrew]

Attachment: print preview view of dunfermlineathletic.rivals.net on Moz 0.9.9

Comment 8

[andrew]

Attachment: normal browser view of dunfermlineathletic.rivals.net on Moz 0.9.9

Comment 9

[Bill Mason]

*** Bug 213724 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 10

[Hiro]

(In reply to comment #3)
> 4)	Click on the ‘Mozilla Developer Day’ link. 

Now, a color is not changed only by clicking a link.
But on the page which has set up "a:hover" etc. by css, a color changes only by
placing a mouse on a link.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; ja-JP; rv:1.8a6) Gecko/20041207
Firefox/1.0+

Comment 11

[canalvorfeed]

Links are still semi-alive in Firefox 1.0.

1. Start Firefox (default homepage!).
2. Select File->PrintPreview
3. Right Click on link and choose "Open in new tab".
4. Close tab with print preview.
5. Now you have normal page with normal links and print preview controls on tob
but without normal buttons and such. Oops.

Checked with FireFox 1.0 under Windows XP and Windows 2000...

Comment 12

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

1. go to http://dunfermlineathletic.rivals.net/
2. print preview
3. mouse over links

results: 
"link"s change color on mouseover, do not result in page loads, no context menu.

expected results:
all preview pages are static

No longer happens with http://www.rivals.net/ or the other examples.  So, what's
special about http://dunfermlineathletic.rivals.net/ ?

Comment 13

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

similar goodies in bug 250545

Comment 14

[Hermann Schwab]

Attachment: simple testcase

just hover over the links in print preview and see colors changing.

Comment 15

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

(In reply to comment #12)
>
> No longer happens with http://www.rivals.net/ or the other examples.  So, what's
> special about http://dunfermlineathletic.rivals.net/ ?

responding to my own b.s. I don't know what I was testing at the time, but contrary to what I said, the problem still exists on the links metiond

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20051112 Firefox/1.6a1

Comment 16

[Hermann Schwab]

*** Bug 250545 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 17

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

*** Bug 167971 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 18

[mmortal03]

(In reply to comment #14)
> Created an attachment (id=203521) [details]
> simple testcase
> 
> just hover over the links in print preview and see colors changing.
> 

I am not seeing this anymore with this testcase.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9b4pre) Gecko/2008020504 Minefield/3.0b4pre ID:2008020504

Comment 22

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

The severity field for this bug is relatively low, S4. However, the bug has 6 duplicates.
:jwatt, could you consider increasing the bug severity?

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Comment 23

[BugBot (nomail) [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

The last needinfo from me was triggered in error by recent activity on the bug. I'm clearing the needinfo since this is a very old bug and I don't know if it's still relevant.