137467 - Cut/Copy/Paste should only appear when clicking on selected text

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 135813

(SeaMonkey :: UI Design, enhancement)

Description

[TGOS]

The context menu has finally been cleaned-up. Except for some tiny flaws, this
is quite okay. One flaw is bug 135331, another one is this here:

If I have text selected somewhere on the page and click on the selected text,
it's okay that a Cut/Copy/Paste menu appears, however, if I have selected text
somewhere on the the page and right click somewhere else on the page, I should
get my normal page context menu. IE is making it that way, that if you click
somewhere else than on the selected text, it's deselected and the standard page
menu appears. That's maybe not optimal, it would be better to keep it selected
and display the context menu depending on the fact if the mouse was over the
selected text when clicked or not.

As it's annoying if I select something on top of the page, don't deselect it and
later on when I'm at the bottom of a long page, I want to get my page menu and
still get a Cut/Copy/Paste menu, so I first have to click somewhere to deselect
the text.

Comment 1

[Jesse Ruderman]

> Cut/Copy/Paste shouldn't only appear when clicking on selected text

You meant "should", right?  It sounds like it based on your description.  Please
tell me if I'm wrong...

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 135813 ***

Comment 2

[TGOS]

You are correct, I meant 'should'. Actually I first wanted to write something
like "Cut/Copy/Paste shouldn't appear when clicking on anything else than the
the selected text", but it's always better to avoid negating statements and
instead of explaining how something shouldn't behave, it's better to simply
explain how it should behave.

And you are right, it's a duplicate. Funny, I seem to have overlooked this other
bug report.

Comment 3

[Paul Wyskoczka]

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