38482 - Context menus for plugins don't contain navigation options

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

(Core Graveyard :: Plug-ins, defect, P3)

Description

[Jesse Ruderman]

Context menus for links, images, etc. contain navigation options and several 
other options, but context menus over plug-ins don't.  This prevents me from 
doing "Open frame in new window" or "View frame source" on a frame that is 
filled with a shockwave movie, for example.

Comment 1

[av (gone)]

I am not sure this is a bug. Plugins take over window event handling, and this 
is up to the plugin developer to decide what to show in the context menu.

Comment 2

[Jesse Ruderman]

That's true.  It would suck if you could fire bullets but not bombs because the 
browser stole right-clicks.  One possibility would be to add an option to the 
context menu, "allow this plug-in to take over right click events", and let the 
user select from {once, always for this site, always for this plug-in}.

Comment 3

[ekrock's old account (dead)]

Agree with av and marking INVALID. If anyone thinks this is a valid bug and 
wants to REOPEN, please first check how plug-ins worked in Nav4 and see if it 
was any different. In this case, if we're doing the same thing as what happened 
in Nav4, we're doing the right thing.

Comment 4

[Blake Ross]

NS 4.x let's the plugins take over the event handling/context menu and I agree 
that that's the best way it should function.  verified.