37804 - Cmd-click should bring up context menu on Macs

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 18726

(Core :: XUL, enhancement, P3)

Description

[Stanton McCandlish]

Related to bugs 18726, 31775, 30089 (in part).

IE, and (I think) Netscape Navigator/Communicator have long supported Cmd-Click 
as well as Ctrl-Click to pop up contextual menus.  I personally depend on this a 
lot, because I have a Kinesis split ergnomic keyboard, and an Alps Glidepoint 
trackpad in the middle. On this keyboard, the Ctrl key is directly below where 
my wrist is when using the trackpad, making Ctrl-Click rather a pain in the butt 
to pull off.  (If Netscape doesn't do this, too, it should in my opinion. I've 
only been using IE for about the last year and half because its faster and more 
stable on my s

Comment 1

[Stanton McCandlish]

Minor clarification: By Cmd-Click, I mean Cmd-Click-and-hold.  
Cmd-Click-and-release shouldn't do anything except on a link (in which case it 
should open it in a new window.  This is not happening yet as of M15 or M16

Comment 2

[Mike Pinkerton (not reading bugmail)]

4.x does not do cmd-click, nor does any mac app i know of.

i understand, though, as i have the same kinesis keyboard. UE?

Comment 3

[Mike Pinkerton (not reading bugmail)]

ok, cmd-click-hold is no different than click and hold, therefore this bug is 
just a dupe of the click-hold bug.


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 18726 ***

Comment 4

[Stanton McCandlish]

Sorry, I should have been more specific.  IE (and Netscape I think) support 
Cmd-Click *on items* like links or images, to get context-specific menus ("Copy 
this image", "Add link to favorites", etc.)   Yes, it doesn't work if you just 
Cmd-click on whitespace or something.  You do have to use Ctrl-Click for that.  
Anyway, the point being that it'd be very very very nice to have this IE (and 
NS?) functionality in Mozilla.  This is distinct from the Cmd-Click-release 
action on any linked item, which loads it in a new window.

PS: I'm not sure what you mean by Cmd-Click-hold is the same as Click-hold (I'm 
not a big fan of Click-hold myself, since you have to wait a second or so, and 
Cmd-Click-hold, like Ctrl-Click-hold (or Ctrl-Click-release? Not sure I don't 
use the Ctrl key and the mouse at the same time very much!) is instant, or 
should be.  I guess you mean it's the "same" in the sense of the difficulty of 
building the functionality in?

Anyway, I'm not meaning to go on and on about this, just wanted to be more 
clear/specific.

PPS: "UE?" didn't compute.  :)  If it's a reference to a RSI, mine's just 
tendonitis, very pre-CTS, but irritating nonetheless, making the keyboard m

Comment 5

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

verif.