334065 - Click and hold / Long mouse click brings up no right click / ctrl click / context menu.

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: Menus, defect)

Description

[Simon Howes]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20060413 Firefox/3.0a1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20060413 Firefox/3.0a1

A long mouse click doesn't bring up a context menu.  The only way for a single button mouse is to ctrl+click.

Reproducible: Always

Actual Results:  
Nothing.

Comment 1

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

By design: see bug 301758. You can turn it back on by setting the pref "ui.click_hold_context_menus" to true.

Comment 2

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

*** Bug 355378 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

*** Bug 356903 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

*** Bug 358132 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 5

[Hiro]

*** Bug 359644 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 6

[jgromotka]

Bug reappears in Firefox 2.0 (Mac OS 10.4.8)

Comment 7

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

*** Bug 363667 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 8

[sumod]

(In reply to comment #1)
> By design: see bug 301758. You can turn it back on by setting the pref
> "ui.click_hold_context_menus" to true.
> 

How and where can we set this preference to be true? I do not see this option on the interface.

Comment 12

[dirkhunt]

(In reply to comment #1)
> By design: see bug 301758. You can turn it back on by setting the pref
> "ui.click_hold_context_menus" to true.
> 
Thanks for the reply Phil,  for everyone else this is the info that you need to change the settings.... http://kb.mozillazine.org/Editing_configuration

To modify a preference in a browser application such as Firefox or SeaMonkey, type about:config into the address bar and press Enter.

have fun

Comment 14

[Alan Hanscom]

I am FURIOUS that I can no longer hold down the track pad button to get the contextual menu in Firefox. Did they check with Mac users before they eliminated this option? I am ready to dump Firefox, I am so mad. They don't seem to be reading these bulletin boards, either, or feedback messages. I have a Mac PowerBook G4 and the only way I can now save an image is to drag it into a new tab and save the page as an image file. But I've lost the ability to access all the other things in the contextual menu, like image zoom and all those nice things. I don't know if I'm loyal enough to Mozilla to go back to an older version. I think they should fix the problem, and then come begging back to us Mac users to use their browser again. For your information, buldir, NONE of the modifier keys are working with a Mac click. NONE OF THEM. Control, function, option, and apple keys have no effect on clicking and holding it down. Function seems to momentarily engage Image Zoom, but the zoom it picks for you after you release the click is a completely random value. FRUSTRATED AND FURIOUS. MOZILLA, ARE YOU EVEN READING THESE MESSAGES???!!!

Comment 16

[Alan Hanscom]

Hooray! Thank you, that fixed it for me.  Sorry I got so upset -- but I still do have to wonder why this was changed for a new release of Firefox.  It looks like I have my complete contextual menu back. Thanks --Alan 

(In reply to comment #12)
> (In reply to comment #1)
> > By design: see bug 301758. You can turn it back on by setting the pref
> > "ui.click_hold_context_menus" to true.
> > 
> Thanks for the reply Phil,  for everyone else this is the info that you need to
> change the settings.... http://kb.mozillazine.org/Editing_configuration
> 
> To modify a preference in a browser application such as Firefox or SeaMonkey,
> type about:config into the address bar and press Enter.
> 
> have fun
> 

Comment 18

[Alan Hanscom]

Just one more comment ... I was able to follow the directions and go into the config file to make the necessary change.  But what about the thousands of people who have Macs because they were the easier machine to get, and also have been using Firefox?  They will have a much harder time opening the config file.  I'm thinking specifically of retired people, who are already struggling with the computer as it is.  A new release of Firefox should be sent out immediately, with the fix already in place.