486427 - Can't right-click and copy on content tabs (e.g. "What's New in Thunderbird 3")

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Description

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User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2a1pre) Gecko/20090401 Minefield/3.6a1pre
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1b3pre) Gecko/20090223 Thunderbird/3.0b2

I just installed TB3 beta 2 (it went fine).
TB3 started up with two tabs, one showed "What's new in Thunderbird 3".  I can't zoom this, it has no right-click menu.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install and run Thunderbird 3.
2. Look at the "What's New" tab's contents.
3. Try to interact with them.
Actual Results:  
It's a weird page.
* Ctrl-+ to zoom the text doesn't work.
* View-Zoom doesn't work.
* there's no context menu or selection context menu -- nothing happens if you right-click or select and right-click.
* No context menu

Expected Results:  
All those actions work fine on the similar "Welcome to Thunderbird" page (choose Go > Mail Start Page), so I'm not sure why not on this page.

I really did want to zoom the text and copy the link URLs.

Comment 1

[Mark Banner (:standard8)]

Attachment: Rough proof of concept patch

This is a very rough patch that would head towards fixing this. The general idea is there some thoughts as to what it would need to be able to get in:

- If getBrowser returns null, the menu items should be disabled
- The changed browser element (from iframe) needs various attributes setting on it to disable options.
- Need to check that the correct browser element is returned for different panels of the same type.
- Additional documentation.

Comment 2

[Mark Banner (:standard8)]

I'm fixing the zoom part of this in bug 495818.

Comment 3

[Mark Banner (:standard8)]

The zoom part is now fixed. It is just a context menu that is lacking. Note that you can still copy by using Edit -> Copy or using keyboard shortcuts.

Comment 4

[Jim Porter (:squib)]

The context menu is now present in 5.0 (and possibly earlier versions) --> FIXED.