272314 - google-store.com - Javascript used to disable/replace context menu confuses middle mouse button click with right click

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English US, defect)

Description

[Daniel Rozenberg]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

In sites using javascript to disable the right-click context menu, clicking with
the middle mouse button anywhere in this site (for example, a link so it will
open in a new tab, if this setting is used) will evoke the script even thought
you didn't right click

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to the example site (http://www.google-store.com/index.php) (not
www.googlestore.com without the score as this is a different site)
2. Middle click on any link to open it in a new tab

Actual Results:  
The link was indeed open in a new tab, but the script which produces an alert
("This function is disabled!") also ran.

Expected Results:  
The link should open in a new tab, and no script should be running

This is especially annoying, for example, in a site that uses it's own
javascript context-menu
example: http://www.milonic.com/menusample27.php
if you try middle clicking on a link it will open the javascript context menu.

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

This is just a bug in the script.  It puts up that alert explicitly for a click
with any mouse button other than the left one (middle, right, any other buttons
on 5-button mice, etc, etc).

No Mozilla bug here.

Comment 2

[Chris Lawson (gone)]

I don't see any scripts doing any click-catching on that page any more at all. FIXED.