418618 - right click on the scrollbar to jump to

Status: NEW

(Core :: XUL, enhancement)

Description

[tester]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.12) Gecko/20080201 Firefox/2.0.0.12
Build Identifier: Firefox 3 beta 3

today if the use right click on the scrollbar, nothing happens.

the idea:
- right click on the top arrow to go to the top of the page
- right click on the down arrow to go to the end of the page
- right click on the scrollbar  to go to "x" location

note:
* right click==only one short click to go to, with no scrolling effect
* there are no new buttons
* this is a good idea for all scrollbars

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1

[Jesse Ruderman]

Can't you already do this by middle-clicking?

Comment 2

[tester]

1. most people don't like clicking on the middle button (it's not a convenient option)
2. it's work only on linux
3. you can't click on the arrows to go to the top or to the end of the page.

Comment 3

[d]

This is actually pretty clever, and I'd like to see this implemented quite soon. As the rightclick on scrollbar still doesn't seem to have any function, why not?

Comment 4

[Tyler Downer [He/Him]]

Reporter, are you still seeing this issue with Firefox 3.6.12 or later in safe mode? If not, please close. These links can help you in your testing.
http://support.mozilla.com/kb/Safe+Mode
http://support.mozilla.com/kb/Managing+profiles

Comment 5

[Diana Koenraadt]

Attachment: Right click on scrollbar moves it to mouse position.

Right-click functionality for moving scrollbar added. Right-click functionality for top and bottom arrows already present in nightly build.

Reviewer chosen from https://wiki.mozilla.org/Modules/Firefox, please reassign if needed.

Comment 6

[Dietrich Ayala (:dietrich)]

Comment on attachment 587762 [details] [diff] [review]
Right click on scrollbar moves it to mouse position.

Thanks Diana!

I'm going to request code review from Neil Deakin, who might be a good person to review this change. If not, he can forward to the proper reviewer for this area of code.

I'm also going to request a UI review from our UX team so that we can their input on this change.

Comment 7

[Alex Limi (:limi) — Firefox UX Team]

I'm not sure I like introducing custom behaviors to system widgets.

E.g. will this work on Mac with the Lion scrollbars?

Comment 8

[Dietrich Ayala (:dietrich)]

Comment on attachment 587762 [details] [diff] [review]
Right click on scrollbar moves it to mouse position.

Removing review request. Should get to agreement on whether this should be done or not before moving forward on the code part.

Comment 9

[Diana Koenraadt]

Though I just implemented it because it seemed like a good beginner bug (code for middle mouse already existed), I do have some UI input myself: 

In the current version of Firefox, middle mouse click moves the scroll bar to the mouse position, BUT.. right mouse click on the top or bottom arrows moves the scroll bar all the way up or down. I'd expect these two pieces of functionality either both under the middle mouse button, or both under the right mouse button.

Comment 10

[Justin Dolske [:Dolske]]

(In reply to Alex Limi (:limi) — Firefox UX Team from comment #7)
> I'm not sure I like introducing custom behaviors to system widgets.
> 
> E.g. will this work on Mac with the Lion scrollbars?

Phrased differently: right-click on a scroll bar should match existing platform conventions.

For example, on Window 7 a right-click in any native application's scroll bar gives a context menu with the options Scroll here / Top / Bottom / etc. On OS X 10.6, it does nothing (well, in Safari it treats the scroll bar as part of the page, and gives the normal context menu you'd get anywhere on the page... likely a bug).

So, for Windows and OS X we likely shouldn't make this change.

However -- I remember that some Unix desktops _do_ use right-click on a scrollbar to jump to that position. I don't have a Ubuntu box handy, but if Gnome/KDE/etc still support this interaction we should do this too (but enable it only on such platforms).

Comment 11

[kernp25]

(In reply to Justin Dolske [:Dolske] from comment #10) 
> For example, on Window 7 a right-click in any native application's scroll
> bar gives a context menu with the options Scroll here / Top / Bottom / etc.
> On OS X 10.6, it does nothing (well, in Safari it treats the scroll bar as
> part of the page, and gives the normal context menu you'd get anywhere on
> the page... likely a bug).

But why is firefox not displaying this context menu?

I think it would be useful if we have that context menu in firefox too.

Comment 12

[kernp25]

These are the bugs for the context menu:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38467

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38466

Comment 13

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

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