1673163 - Merger of tab bar and window title bar prevents access to window context menu

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Core :: Widget: Gtk, defect)

Description

[Ian Dickinson]

Attachment: firefox-82-window-context-menu-screenshot.png

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:82.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/82.0

Steps to reproduce:

1. Firefox on Ubuntu 20.04 running with Gnome desktop was auto-upgraded to version 82
2. Open Firefox
3. Right click on title bar to access the window context menu, which typically has entries such as Move to workspace down and Move to monitor right , resize, etc

Actual results:

Now that the browser tab bar has been merged into the window title bar, the only context menu that can be accessed from the window chrome is the Firefox tab bar context menu. Right-click anywhere on (what looks like) the window title bar only produces the tab bar context menu

Expected results:

I routinely distribute browser windows across multiple Gnome workspaces, so I need some way to access the move to workspace context menu actions. With the change in Firefox 82, it is now much more difficult to move windows around.

I'm not opposed to the change to save screen real-estate by merging the tab bar and the title bar. It's just that we need to not lose access to the window context menu as a result.

Comment 1

[Raluca Popovici, Desktop QA]

I can reproduce this issue on my machine Ubuntu 20 on Firefox 82 but can be related to the changes from bug 1460959. I will assign a component to involve the dev team.

Comment 2

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

Set release status flags based on info from the regressing bug 1460959

Comment 3

[Martin Stránský [:stransky] (ni? me)]

Yes, it's because the system titlebar is hidden by default now. You can open the menu by ALT+Space or enable the system titlebar at Customize -> Title Bar checkbox at left bottom corner.