1395314 - When right-clicking page, "Back" and other items are gone (Chrome 60)

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(developer.mozilla.org Graveyard :: Wiki pages, enhancement)

Description

[danielkaspo]

What feature should be changed? Please provide the URL of the feature if possible.
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Any wiki page - if right-clicked on will show the issue.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/MDN/Feedback

One example page, just right-click on it and you'll see it.

What problems would this solve?
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I only have left and right click on my mouse. To go back a page, I will always right-click, move the mouse slightly down-right, and then click "Back"

Once I hit MDN during my browsing session though, I no longer can do that. Minor inconvenience but also a bad precedence to set (removing things from the right-click context menu.)

Who would use this?
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Every sane user.

What would users see?
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A context menu they are familiar with and understand.

What would users do? What would happen as a result?
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Be able to use their context menus and whatever extensions they had in there. Also, basic functionality like going back and forward.

Is there anything else we should know?
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This was a bad change to begin with and I'm sad to see MDN make it.

Comment 1

[John Whitlock [:jwhitlock]]

I'm unable to duplicate this on Firefox 57, Safari 10, or Chrome 60 on MacOS. On all those systems, a control-click opens the context menu, and back is one of the top options. I'll attach a screenshot.

What browser and OS are you using? Do you get different results if you click on different areas of the page?

Comment 2

[John Whitlock [:jwhitlock]]

Attachment: Back - Chrome 60.png

"Back" is the first menu item on Chrome 60

Comment 3

[John Whitlock [:jwhitlock]]

Attachment: Back - Firefox 57.png

Back is an Arrow in Firefox 57

Comment 4

[danielkaspo]

I'm on v60 of Chrome and it's happening on both Windows 10 and Ubuntu 16.04 for me.

http://imgur.com/ciIMIG4

That's a screenshot of what I'm seeing.

Comment 5

[danielkaspo]

(In reply to John Whitlock [:jwhitlock] from comment #1)
> I'm unable to duplicate this on Firefox 57, Safari 10, or Chrome 60 on
> MacOS. On all those systems, a control-click opens the context menu, and
> back is one of the top options. I'll attach a screenshot.
> 
> What browser and OS are you using? Do you get different results if you click
> on different areas of the page?

If it helps also, this is it while I'm in Incognito Mode (no extensions other than LastPass)

http://imgur.com/34KAC0w

Comment 6

[John Whitlock [:jwhitlock]]

That's interesting. Your screenshot shows the MDN context menu items. The Firefox screenshot shows how the feature is supposed to work - two menu items added, but the others remain as well. I don't see this issue on Chrome 60.0.3112.113 for MacOS. 

MDN documents the contextmenu attribute here:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Global_attributes/contextmenu

For Chrome we say it is not supported, with the note:

An experimental implementation was originally available via the command line option --enable-blink-features=ContextMenu. Until Chrome 52 and Opera 39 it was additionally available by enabling the Experimental Web Platform features option, but got removed from that due to a Web compatibility issue [1]. In June 2017, it was removed entirely from the browsers. This is documented in Chromium bug 87553.

[1] https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=412945
[2] https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=87553

Maybe the situation has changed again? Maybe MacOS will break on the the next Chrome update?

Comment 7

[Stephanie Hobson [:shobson]]

I'm not able to reproduce in Chrome 61 on Debian Stretch or Chromium 60 in Ubuntu 16.04.

Comment 8

[danielkaspo]

Upgraded Chrome from v60 to v61 and it's back to normal :)

https://imgur.com/lidPnQF