301445 - Contextual menu problem with one button Apple mouse

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core Graveyard :: Widget: Mac, defect)

Description

[steg]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8b3) Gecko/20050713 SeaMonkey/1.0a
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8b3) Gecko/20050713 SeaMonkey/1.0a

Using the one Button Apple mouse, it is not possible to copy a url or a part
from the headers of a message in the mailnews client. Just highlight something
and keep the mouse button pressed until the contextual menu appears: you cannot
select anything on this menu until you stop pressing the mouse button. The
problem is that once you stop pressing the mouse button, the highlighted part
is... no more highlighted, so you can't copy it. You have tho use apple-C
combination on the keyboard after having highlighted what you want to copy.

I noticed the same problem on Mozilla 1.7.3.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Launch the navigator, and get a url displayed on the adress bar
2.Highlight the url, keep the mouse button pressed
3.Once the contextual menu is there, try the copy the url

AND

1.Launch the mailnews client, and display full headers of a message
2.Highlight any part of the headers (not the message body) and keep the mouse
button pressed.
3.Once the contextual menu appears, try to copy the highlighted part.
Actual Results:  
To select something on the contextual menu, you have to stop pressing the
mouse's sole button, which causes the highlighted part to stop being
highlighted, so you can't copy or use the contextual menu.

Expected Results:  
Allowing selection on the contextual menu while the sole button of the mouse is
still being pressed.

Comment 1

[Stefan [:stefanh]]

Hmm, as a workaround can you select the text and then use ctrl-click to bring up
the contextual menu? Does it work then?

Comment 2

[steg]

(In reply to comment #1)
> Hmm, as a workaround can you select the text and then use ctrl-click to bring up
> the contextual menu? Does it work then?

Yes. When I proceed the way you described, everything works well, I got the
contextual menu and I can use it.

Comment 3

[Stefan [:stefanh]]

 (In reply to comment #2)
> (In reply to comment #1)
> > Hmm, as a workaround can you select the text and then use ctrl-click to bring up
> > the contextual menu? Does it work then?
> 
> Yes. When I proceed the way you described, everything works well, I got the
> contextual menu and I can use it.

Yeah, that is the standard mac behaviour.

Comment 4

[Jo Hermans]

Bug 301758 just removed made it possible to disable the click-and-hold menu though the ui.click_hold_context_menus preference. It will be off by default in Firefox 2.0 by default, but on by default in SeaMonkey.