294743 - unintended context menu appearance caused by left click

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 107433

(Firefox :: Disability Access, defect)

Description

[rintaro]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4

holding down on left click causes the context menu to appear.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. left click anywhere you can right click on and hold
Actual Results:  
context menu appears

Expected Results:  
no context menu

Mozilla and Firefox are virtually the only applications that do this. The  OS X
dock is another exception that also has this feature, but the dock's behaviour
is O.K./well-thought-out because:<ol>
<li>Clicking on an item in the context menu has the same effect as clicking on
the icon.</li>
<li>When a user clicks on a dock icon accidentally, the user can hold down and
get a context menu instead to prevent the click from unintendedly being
registered as a normal single click. Usually, the user can drag the mouse away
from the clicked spot before releasing the mouse button in order to prevent a
click from registering, however this on the dock can cause an icon to be dragged
and removed out of the dock, which users usually don't want to do.</li></ol>

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Comment 1

[Jo Hermans]

That's normal behaviour. It was invented by Netscape in the 90's when they
wanted to simulate the right-click on a single-click mouse. That was befofe
Apple standardized on the ctrl-click as a replacement. We still support it for
backwards compatibility.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 117589 ***

Comment 2

[Jo Hermans]

oops, other one

Comment 3

[Jo Hermans]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 107433 ***