263281 - Right click is not opening the context menu on the bookmarks except for the first one

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 256170

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, defect)

Description

[Satish]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041001 Firefox/0.10.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041001 Firefox/0.10.1

I have around 10 bookmarks in my bookmarks menu. When I select the bookmarks
menu and right click on one bookmark from the list, say the first bookmark, it
is showin the context menu. But when I right click immediately on the following
bookmark, the bookmarks menu itself is disappearing and the context menu of the
browser window is being opened.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Add some 10 bookmarks to the Bookmarks menu (directly under bookmarks)
2. Select the bookmarks menu by clicking the "Bookmarks" from the menubar.
3. Rightclick on the first bookmark. It opens a context menu
4. Then rightclick on the second bookmark. It closed the current bookmarks menu
and opens the context menu of the browser window



Expected Results:  
It must have opened the context menu of the bookmark on which we have
rightclicked. (IE does exactly like this)

Comment 1

[Vladimir Vukicevic [:vlad] [:vladv] (needinfo me, slow to respond)]

This is a limitation of our current context menu code; basically, if you have a
context menu open, any click outside of the context menu will close down the
entire menu hierarchy.  (It's not just the first menu -- try right-clicking on
any menu item and the right clicking on the first, or anywhere outside of the
context menu that came up.)  The menu code needs a serious whacking, but that
won't happen for a while.

Comment 2

[Peter van der Woude [:Peter6]]

There is an open bug for this Vlad


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 256170 ***

Comment 3

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

Don't reopen bugs without giving a justification for it, especially six months
later.  If something regressed recently, file a new bug.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 256170 ***

Comment 4

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

sorry for bugspam, long-overdue mass reassign of ancient QA contact bugs, filter on "beltznerLovesGoats" to get rid of this mass change