317199 - Context Menu Hangs When Right Clicking Certain Bookmarks

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: Menus, defect)

Description

[John]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051111 Firefox/1.5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051111 Firefox/1.5

When you right click a bookmark while a subbookmark menu is visible, the context menu does not go away (I will explain - it's confusing)

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go into the bookmarks context menu.(context 1)
2. Hover your mouse over a bookmark folder so another bookmark context appears. (I will refer to this submenu as context 2)
3. Right click on a bookmark that is not in a bookmark folder while the bookmark folder is still visible

See this screenshot: http://portfolioso.com/private/forumpics/ffcontextbug1.PNG

Actual Results:  
The right click context menu remains visible on the page no matter where you click. The only way to make it disappear is to left click or right click something on the menu. However, it should disappear when you click anywhere ont he page.

Expected Results:  
The right click context menu should have disappeared when you click anywhere on the page. No matter what tab you go to or what you click, it does not disappear until you left click or right click the context menu. Like I said, it should disappear when anything is clicked.

Sometimes, it gets stuck in Windows and is still visible when Firefox is minimized, but I cannot replicate this all the time.

I'm using Firefox 1.5 RC3

Screenshot: http://portfolioso.com/private/forumpics/ffcontextbug2.PNG

Comment 1

[M;cha31]

Has anyone found a workaround/fix for this yet.  I have a similar situation where the bookmarks menu hangs for not apparent reason and am trying to find out if it has been resolved.  

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051111 Firefox/1.5

Comment 2

[JJ Miller]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.8.0.6) Gecko/20060728
Firefox/1.5.0.6
Windows Vista Beta 2 Build 5384

I could not reproduce this bug.  This may be do the the fact that i did not fully understand the instructions on how to reproduce the bug.  It may also be do to the fact that i am using a newer version that this might be fixed in.  

I did however find a related bug.  If you right-click on a bookmark and left-click another bookmark then select properties nothing happens.

Follow the following steps to reproduce the bugs:

1) Open the bookmark sidebar. CTRL+B
2) Pick a bookmark and hold down the right-mouse-button(don't let go until told to)
3) Now left-click on a bookmark.  The page will change is it should.
4) Now let go of the right-mouse-button.  The context menu should now open.
5) Click on properties.  You would now expect the properties window to open but it doesn't.

JJ Miller

Comment 3

[M;cha31]

Not sure what was causing the bookmarks menu hanging.  If it was an extension or something internal, (i often disable/enable extensions) it's gone now, which is the important part :)

I reproduced the bug JJ Miller mentioned.

Comment 4

[Johannes Wienke]

Another situation where a context menu won't go away on Linux:

1. Open a folder in your bookmark toolbar
2. Right click on one of its items and leave the mouse button pressed (one context menu should have opened already).
3. Move your mouse to another item in that folder and release the mouse button. Now you have two opened context menus. The last one will close without problems but the old menu only goes away if you use one of its items.

Comment 5

[Johannes Wienke]

I forgot the user agent:
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; de; rv:1.8.1.2) Gecko/20070305 Firefox/2.0.0.2

Comment 6

[Mats Palmgren (inactive)]

WFM,  Firefox trunk 2008022704 on Linux.

Comment 7

[Carsten Book [:Tomcat]]

works for me on Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.2; en-US; rv:1.9pre) Gecko/2008041506 Minefield/3.0pre ID:2008041506 

-> Worksforme

Johannes: If you can still reproduce this bug with a latest Firefox Trunk Build
or Firefox Beta 5, please comment and reopen.