Open Bug 1668334 Opened 5 years ago Updated 5 years ago

ui.click_hold_context_menus no longer appears to work on Mac

Categories

(Core :: Widget: Cocoa, defect, P3)

Product:
Core
Component:
Widget: Cocoa
Version:
Firefox 81
Type:
defect

Tracking

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Tracking Flags:
Tracking Status
firefox81 --- affected
firefox82 --- affected
firefox83 --- affected

People

(Reporter: long, Unassigned)

Details

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.15; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/60.0 SeaMonkey/2.53.4

Steps to reproduce:

Created new profile and in about:config set ui.click_hold_context_menus to true. Then visited http://www2.ku.edu/~long/bb/ and long-pressed my Mac touchpad on the link there.

Actual results:

Nothing

Expected results:

Right-click context menu should appear.

Tested using Firefox 81.0.

Hi long,

Thanks for your report.

I was able to reproduce the behavior reported in Firefox Nightly 83.0a1 (2020-10-05), Beta 82 and Release 81 visiting the page http://www2.ku.edu/~long/bb/

I noticed this functionality does work on other sites such as amazon and cnn.com, for this reason it leads me to believe that this may be related to that specific site you mention.

I'll add a product and component so the corresponding team can take a look.

Regards,
Virginia

Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
status-firefox81: --- → affected
status-firefox82: --- → affected
status-firefox83: --- → affected
Component: Untriaged → Widget: Cocoa
Ever confirmed: true
Product: Firefox → Core

Could one of you please run mozregression[1] to see when this started happening? Thanks!

[1] https://mozilla.github.io/mozregression/

Severity: -- → S3
Flags: needinfo?(long)
Flags: needinfo?(balducci)
Priority: -- → P3

Might be bug 1348661 since it works on some sites. See also bug 1275060.

I can't seem to run releases before 51 where the problem still seems to exist.

Flags: needinfo?(long)

(In reply to long from comment #5)

I can't seem to run releases before 51 where the problem still seems to exist.

The bug title says that "ui.click_hold_context_menus no longer appears to work". Do you happen to remember the last time that it did work? Was it on an earlier version of Firefox? Or earlier version of macOS? Is it possible that this never worked on this particular site as far as you can tell?

Flags: needinfo?(long)

Honestly I don't know if/when this ever worked in Firefox, it is not my daily browser. I do however use Seamonkey and that pref continues to work there so I figured it was supposed to still be working in FF since it shows up in the default prefs.

Flags: needinfo?(long)

hi there

apologies for the noise

I'm getting this thread, but I'm not virginia balducci (I'm actually gabriele balducci)
(maybe virginia is asking herself why she's not getting the thread .... )

Looks like there is a mismatch somewhere on bugzilla with the email addresses

cheers
gabriele balducci

Flags: needinfo?(balducci)

Definitely appears to be connected to e10s being enabled. If I run 56.0a1 and set browser.tabs.remote.autostart.2=false then ui.click_hold_context_menus works again. Since I can't seem to run anything older than 51 I'm not sure how to narrow down to a changeset range since it appears e10s was in before that?

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