429525 - Back/forward button's right-click history menu should appear in the same location and the drop-down button's menu

Status: NEW

(Firefox :: Menus, defect)

Description

[u88484]

By definition of a menu-button, the back/forward button looks and acts like one.  How ever, if you right-click on the back/forward menu the history menu should appear in the same location and the drop-down button's menu but it doesn't.  The menu appears where the user has right-clicked and not under the drop arrow.

Comment 1

[Victor Bielawski]

Generic/SeaMonkey version - bug 429556

Comment 2

[Simon Bünzli]

Actually, on a right-click you should get a _context_ menu - and context menus always appear at the cursor position for faster access. So, although in this case the context menu looks pretty much the same as the button's own menu (BTW: internally, they're two different menupopups), it's position is supposed to differ. Suggesting INVALID.

Comment 3

[Victor Bielawski]

(In reply to comment #2)
> Actually, on a right-click you should get a _context_ menu - and context menus
> always appear at the cursor position for faster access. So, although in this
> case the context menu looks pretty much the same as the button's own menu (BTW:
> internally, they're two different menupopups), it's position is supposed to
> differ. Suggesting INVALID.

(1) The popup contains exactly the same menuitems. It doesn't add anything that is more relevant to the context, except IIRC on Mac, where it removes (or removed?) items that are not applicable to the button that was right-clicked (or maybe left-pressed-and-held?).
(2) The popup has popped up in the same location for both right and left click since at least Mozilla 0.4.

The behaviour changed somewhere in the first half of 2007, before the addition of the u-b-f-b.

Comment 4

[Vasilis Vasaitis]

+1 on fixing this issue. This is inconsistent UI behaviour, and it's been annoying me for months (ever since I discovered that right click can be used for the same purpose as the prolonged left click). It's one of my current UI paper cuts. I mean, since the two actions result in the same functional outcome, they should result in the same visual outcome too, right? Not to mention that the right-click (context menu style) version looks plain ugly.

Chrome nailed it by the way: a right click on the back/forward button does exactly the same visually as a prolonged left click.

Oh, and #623078 is probably a duplicate. (I came to file a new bug, but found both of these instead.)