1403187 - Right clicking on any page goes back to the previous page

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1504021

(Core :: XUL, defect, P3)

Description

[Simon Lévesque]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Ubuntu Chromium/61.0.3163.79 Chrome/61.0.3163.79 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce:

When I right click on any page. If I hold or move the mouse while clicking it does not happen.


Actual results:

It sends me to the previous page.


Expected results:

The context menu would open.

Comment 1

[Tooru Fujisawa [:arai]]

please provide the following information:
  1. what's your browser and its version?
  2. what's your OS where the browser runs?
  3. if it's firefox, does the issue happen on safe mode? [1]
  4. if it's firefox on linux and it's from distro package, does the issue happen on Mozilla's binary?

[1] https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/troubleshoot-firefox-issues-using-safe-mode

Comment 2

[Simon Lévesque]

1.
firefox-trunk --version
Mozilla Firefox 58.0a1


2.
cat /proc/version
Linux version 4.10.0-35-generic (buildd@lcy01-16) (gcc version 6.3.0 20170406 (Ubuntu 6.3.0-12ubuntu2) ) #39-Ubuntu SMP Wed Sep 13 07:46:59 UTC 2017

lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID:	Ubuntu
Description:	Ubuntu 17.04
Release:	17.04
Codename:	zesty

3.
Yes

4.
It happens on the developper edition from your website too. I got it from a file called firefox-57.0b3.tar.bz2
From this url: https://download-installer.cdn.mozilla.net/pub/devedition/releases/57.0b3/linux-x86_64/fr/firefox-57.0b3.tar.bz2
Here's the md5 for the archive:
331ec94ecde97f945b32286f331d552a  firefox-57.0b3.tar.bz2



I've got additional informations I just discovered. When I'm on the first page (no page to go back) and I right click on a node which has a background image, it automatically open it in the current tab. Also, I realised that this bug only happens when the browser is NOT in fullscreen mode. Maximizing the window does not solve the issue.

Comment 3

[Tooru Fujisawa [:arai]]

can you check what actual X event is sent when you right click?
maybe with xev application.

Comment 4

[Simon Lévesque]

KeymapNotify event, serial 26, synthetic NO, window 0x0,
    keys:  4294967259 0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   
           0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0

Comment 5

[Tooru Fujisawa [:arai]]

that doen't look like mouse event
have you remapped mouse right click to something else, or something else to right click?
are you using mouse or trackpad or something else as hardware?

Comment 6

[Simon Lévesque]

I'm using a mouse. Any other browser/app has no issue with my right clicks including older Firefox browsers. Maybe I did something wrong with xev. I'll try again.

Comment 7

[Tooru Fujisawa [:arai]]

if it was working before, can you use mozregression tool to find out what change introduced the issue?
http://mozilla.github.io/mozregression/

Comment 8

[Hsin-Yi Tsai (she/her) [:hsinyi]]

NI Simon for comment 7, thank you!

Comment 9

[bugzillashouldrespectmyprivacy]

This now happens to me on Fedora 27 with Firefox 58.

The reason is that the context menu contains a back and forward button, and a quick right-click depresses the back button, which is placed directly underneath the mouse, when the click is released.

Honestly I don't know how this made it past quality control, it's pretty bad UX.

You could prevent the R-ButtonUp event from activating the navigation button, but the correct solution would be to make sure that no button is present underneath the mouse after a right-click.

And I'll be honest, it's kind of dumb to have that navigation menu above the context menu anyway. We already have a back button for people who don't like to use keyboard shortcuts, and we have the shortcuts for people who do. It's redundant UI.

Comment 10

[Olli Pettay [:smaug][[e-mail]]]

Right click causing the action is more like a xul issue. Though, I wonder if that is be design to let fast back action.


FWIW, I've never seen this happening on Fedora 27. I guess I just don't end up moving the pointer when using right click.

Neil might have an opinion.

Comment 11

[soulofmischief]

Since my password manager already ate my shiny new bugzilla account, I'll just post from this one.

I'll repeat myself: The issue is not that the right-click causes the action. The issue is also not that I am moving my mouse after clicking, the mouse doesn't move. The issue is the placement of the context menu.

I have FF57 in one VM, and FF58 in another VM. After the terrible, horrible, no good, very bad regressions caused by 57, I knew better than to update Firefox on all of my VMs at once. 

In 57, the context menu appears outside of the mouse's crosshairs no matter where you click. Right-clicking still activates menu items, as it always has. Changing this behavior would be *another* regression. This is expected behaviour.

In 58, clicking on different areas on the screen cause the context menu to show up in all sorts of positions, inevitable under the mouse crosshairs. Sometimes this is the back button. Sometimes it's the forward button. While typing this message I accidentally added a bookmark because of the bug.

It's the entire context menu, because this happens when you select text as well, but it copies the text as the navbar is hidden.

There isn't much of an opinion to have here, it's simply a regression and that's all there really is. It should be an easy fix.

Comment 12

[Bill Gates, Fool]

I am now tracking this merely as an interested civilian. I created 1436123 for a nearly identical issue except with left-clicking rather than right-clicking.