467484 - dom.event.contextmenu.enabled doesn't work: Websites can still disable the context menu

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 486990

(Core :: DOM: Events, defect)

Description

[Tim McCormack]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.0.4) Gecko/2008111319 Ubuntu/8.10 (intrepid) Firefox/3.0.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.0.4) Gecko/2008111319 Ubuntu/8.10 (intrepid) Firefox/3.0.4

The following code will completely suppress the context menu within an element:

document.getElementById('foo').addEventListener('contextmenu', function(ev){ ev.stopPropagation();  }, false); // capture or bubble, doesn't matter

The setting is clearly ineffective. This may be a regression, or maybe web developers stumbled onto something new—I certainly don't remember encountering this several years ago.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Nochum Sossonko [:Natch]]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10

This works fine for me (the Google Maps page).

Comment 2

[Olli Pettay [:smaug][[e-mail]]]

This is probably a dup of bug 486990.