303330 - Right clicking no longer works on Live Bookmark items in Bookmark Toolbar

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 300710

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, defect)

Description

[Harrison Hamill]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050716 Firefox/1.0.6
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050716 Firefox/1.0.6

In previous versions (in my case 1.0.4) I would single-left-click a live
bookmark in the Bookmark Toolbar, and it would open and stay put. I could then
look at the headlines, and right-click the one I was interested, and select Open
In New Tab from the contextual menu.
This no longer works.

Now I click to open the live bookmark whick still works. But if I then right
click on an item, and release, the browser simply goes to that URL, and leaves
the contextual menu hung on my screen. The menu says "Open", "Open in new
window", "Open in New Tab", and "Copy". This contextual menu will stay on my
screen until one of the items is clicked. In fact, it floats in front of other
applications.

If on the other hand, I right click a live bookmark item, and hold down the
right button, I get the menu as normal, and releasing (rather than clicking) on
a menu option, works correctly.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Using a two button mouse, left click a live bookmark in the Bookmark Toolbar
2.Single-Right-click on an item


Actual Results:  
The browser goes to the link in question, and leaves a contextual menu hanging
on the screen

Expected Results:  
The browser should have displayed the contextual menu as a sticky menu, and
waited for an option to be clicked before redirecting.

I am using the default theme. I have the Google Toolbar installed but that is
all.  I have a logitech three scroll wheel mouse. I am using Mac Os 10.3.9.
I have reproduced this with a couple of different themes, and have tried and
both the logitech mouse driver, and the apple one - in case this was related to
the way one handles right click. 
Incidentally, the same thing happens if using Control-Click instead of right click.

Comment 1

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

WFM in WinXP. Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b4)
Gecko/20050803 Firefox/1.0+ ID:2005080322

Comment 2

[Jaime Mitchell (use [e-mail] for email)]

Does this happen if you start firefox in safe mode:
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Safe_mode

Comment 3

[Jason Cowley]

(In reply to comment #2)
> Does this happen if you start firefox in safe mode:
> http://kb.mozillazine.org/Safe_mode

Yes, it still happens when you start firefox in safe mode. Note, that this bug
is not confined to live bookmarks. The same behavior occurs when right clicking
on a bookmark in any sub-folder.

Comment 4

[Gary]

It would be nice if this was fixed, since then Mac users could actually right click on bookmarks in the Bookmarks drop down menu.

Comment 5

[Gary]

The bug is this: right clicking on ANY item in the Bookmarks drop down menu does NOT bring up a context menu; instead, it basically acts as though you left clicked on the item.

Steps to reproduce:

1. Click on Bookmarks in menu bar to bring up the drop down menu.
2. Right click on an item such as a bookmark. It will open the bookmark, as if you left clicked on it.

This happens to bookmarks, live bookmarks, and folders. 

It would be nice if this was fixed, because it currently denies us from using the context menu in there.

Comment 6

[Brian Polidoro]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 300710 ***

Comment 7

[Jason Cowley]

This is not a duplicate of 300710. Please see comment #5 which gives a good description of this bug. 

Could someone (who actually owns a **** mac) please take a look at this. It is extremely annoying. 

Comment 8

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

Well, I own a Mac, and a nodding acquaintance with Apple's Human Interface Guidelines, and a copy of Safari, and I can tell you that it's both annoying and correct: Mac menu items treat any sort of click as a click. Bookmarks directly in the toolbar aren't menu items, they are (roughly) buttons, so you get to have a context menu; bookmarks in a folder on the toolbar, or in the toolbar overflow, or in the menu, are menu items, and menu items don't care how you click, you left clicked.

Comment 5 is asking for a context menu on any bookmark menu, toolbar subfolder or main Bookmarks menu - that's even less likely, but that's just improperly piling on a different bug; comment 0, which gets to decide what a bug is about, is asking for a context menu on bookmarks in a toolbar folder, and that is exactly bug 300710.