1416758 - checkbox/radio state should get updated when right-clicking on a tab

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(WebExtensions :: Frontend, defect)

Description

[kernp25]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:59.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/59.0
Build ID: 20171113100232



Actual results:

The state of an checkbox or radio item does not get updated when right-clicking on a tab.


Expected results:

It should update the state automatically.

I know there is this bug: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1215376
But i really think the browser should to this.

Comment 1

[Kris Maglione [:kmag]]

Updated how?

Comment 2

[kernp25]

Actual results:

Right-click on tab 1 and click on the menu item of the extension -> The checkbox is checked now!
Right-click on tab 2, the checkbox of the menu item from the extension is checked.

Expected results:
The checkbox of the context menu item from the extension should not be checked when right-clicking on tab 2.

See also https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1215376#c21

Comment 3

[Kris Maglione [:kmag]]

There's no way for us to know when the extension wants the state of a context menu item cleared. It would probably result in the wrong behavior most of the time.