Closed
Bug 258504
Opened 20 years ago
Closed 20 years ago
context menu on click and hold -- why?
Categories
(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)
Tracking
(Not tracked)
VERIFIED
DUPLICATE
of bug 107433
People
(Reporter: jonb, Unassigned)
Details
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040616 Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040616 I'm rather new to the mac so please forgive me if I've overlooked the obvious. I have looked through the apple java developer docs and googled around high and low to see where the convention of holding down the LEFT mouse button to popup the contextual menu might have come from. None of the standard Mac apps that I tried seem to do this. The convention on a Mac for popping up a context menu is to hold down the control key while left left clicking (which happens to be mapped to a right mouse button click by default for the "normal" right click for context menu). There is no mention of *holding down* the right mouse button to popup the context menu. There seems to be nothing from apple or java to support this convention. Why does Mozilla do this? Unless there is some good reason, this seems to be an annoying bug that plagues Mozilla on the Mac. --jon Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. hold down the right mouse button almost anywhere in Mozilla on the mac (including the little window I am using to enter this). 2. 3. Actual Results: The context menu popped up Expected Results: A normal left button mouse click
Comment 1•20 years ago
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Netscape was the first applciation to use this (in version 1.0 ?). The reason is that Mac mouse has only 1 button (yeah, I know that you buy other ones), but not every Mac keyboard has a ctrl button. Later, Apple implement the ctrl-click to replace the right-click, but Netscape didn't use that. When Mozilla started, they implemented both ctrl-click (new convention) and click-and-hold (backwards compatibility). Bug 107433 wants to remove this feature.
Comment 2•20 years ago
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*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 107433 ***
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 20 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
Updated•20 years ago
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Product: Browser → Seamonkey
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