375802 - Right-clicking a link turns the page RTL (moves the scroll bar to the left side, etc)

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox :: Menus, defect)

Description

[Willem Jansen]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; de; rv:1.8.1.3) Gecko/20060601 Firefox/2.0.0.3 (Ubuntu-edgy)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; de; rv:1.8.1.3) Gecko/20060601 Firefox/2.0.0.3 (Ubuntu-edgy)

Using a screen resolution of 1024x768 and loading the given URL, scroll down until the link "Eric Weisstein, Guilloche Pattern: http://mathworld.wolfram.com/GuillochePattern.html"  is just visible in your window. 
If you now right-click the link "Albanian Passport: http://www.bundesdruckerei.de/pics/4..." The context menu opens and the main scroll bar appears on the left and the text alignment seems to switch to right-aligned.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open URL; Screen Res  1024x768 

2. Scroll down, until the link ""Eric Weisstein, Guilloche Pattern: http://ma.." is just visible on the bottom of your window.

3. Right click the link "Albanian Passport: http://www.bund..."  -> the letters ".jpg" on the right side
Actual Results:  
Context menu appears(and vanishes immediately) and scroll bar  and alignment change. Dots in the end of lines vanish and appear on the left of the line. If you click again, the go back to normal.

Expected Results:  
The context menu should just open.

If you open another tab, switch to it and back again, the error can only be reproduced, if you scroll up and down a little. Is also only apperas if you try to open the context menu on the right, by clicking on the "end" of the link.

If you want a pictured "howTo", please just contact me.

Comment 1

[Jesse Ruderman]

I don't see an "albanian passport" link on that page.  I'd guess it was an advertisement (since the page does mention passports), but I don't see any ads on the page at all.

Comment 2

[Jesse Ruderman]

If you make a reduced testcase, we can try to fix the bug anyway, though :)

Comment 3

[Willem Jansen]

At the bottom of the website, it says  "References:"
The next line is:
"Albanian Passport: http://www.bundesdruckerei.de/pics/4_presse/fotoarchiv/personal_downloads/albanienaussen.jpg"

a little futher down you'll find the line:
"Eric Weisstein, Guilloche Pattern: http://mathworld.wolfram.com/GuillochePattern.html"

These are no ads, the site is dealing with patterns on official documents.

I was not able to reproduce it with FF 1.5 on my windows machine, so I guess you need Linux + FF 2.0.0.3. I will try to make some screen copies & paste the link here.

Comment 4

[Samuel Sidler (old account; do not CC)]

Willem, the first line beneath "References:" for me is:

Murphy, R. "Engine-Turning (Guilloché) in Watchmaking." http://www.rgmwatches.com/engine.html.


Are you sure that the first link is the correct page?

Comment 5

[Jesse Ruderman]

nm, I was looking at http://mathworld.wolfram.com/GuillochePattern.html and should have been looking at http://www.maa.org/editorial/mathgames/mathgames_02_09_04.html

Comment 6

[Jesse Ruderman]

WFM with Firefox trunk on Windows, maximized at 1024x768 resolution.

Comment 7

[Willem Jansen]

I managed to take two screenshots:

- http://www.ti.rwth-aachen.de/~jansen/Pre_Rightclick.png
This one shows the browser prior to a right click (I marked the spot where to click)


- http://www.ti.rwth-aachen.de/~jansen/Post_RightClick.png
Here you see the effects of the single right click


@Samuel: I cannot even find the word Murphy on the page. The URL is the one given above: "http://www.maa.org/editorial/mathgames/mathgames_02_09_04.html".

Comment 8

[Jesse Ruderman]

It's not just the scrollbar... from the screenshot, it looks like the entire page is being treated as RTL.  Paragraphs are right-aligned, periods and colons are placed strangely...

Comment 9

[Willem Jansen]

Right. But can anyone reproduce (and thereby confirm) this bug?

Comment 10

[(no longer active)]

Mass-assigning the new rtl keyword to RTL-related (see bug 349193).

Comment 11

[Tomer Cohen :tomer]

I am unable to reproduce, but have an idea what causes this problem.

Do you have "Switch Page Direction" at the bottom of your context menu? If you do, the problem can be reproduced by right clicking anywhere on any page and choosing "Switch page direction" from the context menu. 

(I personally don't like this feature, but some do.)

Comment 12

[(no longer active)]

The STR in comment 0 don't seem to be valid, and the rest of the comments don't seem to shed a light.  The screenshots are no longer accessible as well.  And I can also verify that there is no "Albanian Passport" link on this page.

-> INCOMPLETE.