1804036 - Two finger tap (right click) on Chromebook not working

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1805341

(Fenix :: General, defect, P3)

Description

[Wolfgang Klein]

Firefox for Android

Steps to reproduce:

Installed Firefox as Android app on my Chromebook, a Lenovo Duet. Works great, but...

Actual results:

Context menu does not work, when I use two finger tap on the keyboard's touch pad.

It does appear and work, though, when I use long tap on the touch screen.

Only Firefox is affected by this behaviour. Other Android apps do recognize the two finger tap on the touch pad.

I already tried re-installing FF without any add on, but that did not change anything.

Expected results:

When tapping two fingers on the keyboard's touch pad, the context menu is supposed to appear. Two fingers on the touch pad simulate a right click.

The right click menu was not always missing: when I got my Chromebook a few months ago, it did work as expected in Firefox.

I can also install Firefox as a Linux app on my Chromebook, and there the two finger tap / right click menu works great! But I need FF as Android version, because Linux can't access the onscreen keyboard in tablet mode.

Comment 1

[Rares Doghi, Desktop QA]

Moving this to Core > Widget GTK, this issue could be caused by the ChromeOS using Android apps, but I think it could also be moved to the GeckoView Product ? unfortunately we dont have a ChromeOS device to test this on, but we will test this issue as soon as we get our hands on one.

Comment 2

[Wolfgang Klein]

Today I discovered that right click also does not work when I use an external USB mouse. Again, this applies only to FF, all other apps recognize all mouse keys.

Comment 3

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

Can you try to run Firefox on terminal with MOZ_XINPUT2=1 env variable set?
Thanks.

Comment 4

[Wolfgang Klein]

Martin: that won't work, because I am talking about the Android version of FF that I am using on my Chromebook. As fas as I know, there is no way of doing command line calls to start an Android app.

I can run FF's Linux version on my CB as well, and that version recognizes the two finger tap as well as a physical right mouse button. No problem there, see first comment. But, sadly, I need to use the Android version of FF, because when I detach the keyboard and use the CB in tablet mode, Linux apps can't access the screen keyboard. This is something "special" about ChromeOS. Google say, they are working on it, but they said this more than a year ago...

Comment 5

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

Okay, moving to Fenix then (I hope that's the correct component).

Comment 6

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

The severity field is not set for this bug.
:cpeterson, could you have a look please?

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