1604027 - Right click menu does not show up in separate Firefox windows

Status: NEW

(Core :: Widget: Cocoa, defect, P2)

Description

[Angelo Varlotta]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.15; rv:71.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/71.0

Steps to reproduce:

I have opened several tabs in two separate windows and have pinned most of them in the two windows. I'm running the latest stable Firefox 71 on macOS Catalina 10.15.2.

Actual results:

In the first window I can right click on any tab and the normal pop-up context menu will show up with its different options. In the second window when I right-click on a tab, no context menu comes up. It will appear if I run Mission Control though.

Expected results:

I should be able to have a context menu pop-up no matter how many tab are opened and pinned.

Comment 1

[Florencia Di Ciocco, NI to vbalducci]

Hi Angelo,

I was unable to reproduce this issue on Mac with Firefox Nightly 71.0. But maybe you can provide me with a bit more info.

Does this issue occur with a fresh profile? you can find the steps here: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profile-manager-create-and-remove-firefox-profiles?redirectlocale=en-US&redirectslug=Managing-profiles#w_starting-the-profile-manager

Can you please download Firefox Nightly from here: https://nightly.mozilla.org/ and retest the problem and see if the issue still occurs there as well?

If after doing this you can still reproduce the bug, could you send me a screenshot or a video of the bug? That always helps a lot.

Thanks in advance, Flor.

Comment 2

[Angelo Varlotta]

Hi Florencia,
I discovered that this behavior disappears when I run Firefox with add-ons disabled. I have yet to discover which add-on causes this behavior. I tried the latest Firefox Nightly and I still haven't been able to reproduce the behavior I describe above. You can close this bug request, since it doesn't appear to be related directly to Firefox.

Cheers,
Angelo

Comment 3

[Florencia Di Ciocco, NI to vbalducci]

Hi Angelo,

Either way, thanks for opening the bug and trying to improve FF together :) I will close the bug then. And if you can't reproduce the issue with the "faulty" profile on Nightly, it might be that the developers already fixed it. If so, with due time it will be fixed on Release too.

Thanks for the permission to close the bug and for running the tests, regards, Flor.

Comment 4

[Angelo Varlotta]

Hi Florencia,
I haven't been able to solve this issue actually, but I found another user who has had the same issue I've been having, and had found a hack that will return the normal behavior. Can you please read his solution? His workaround is "to NOT assign Firefox to a specific Desktop". This has worked for me. Have you seen this issue come up recently in Firefox from other users?

https://support.mozilla.org/eu/questions/1274970

Cheers,
Angelo

Comment 5

[Stephen A Pohl [:spohl]]

This seems related to, if not a duplicate of, bug 1592416. Will track as such.