50771 - Popup menus are generated on button release not on button press

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 49844

(Core :: XUL, defect, P3)

Description

[Toby Haynes]

I've recently switched to running Windows NT with the focus-follows-pointer
enabled from TweakUI. Most of Mozilla's menus work fine under this scheme,
including the bookmarks, top bar (File, Edit, etc.) and drop-down boxes, as
these are created on button press. However, clicking the right button in any
window to call the pop-up menu (Back, Forward, Reload, etc.) results in the
window being created when the right button is released. For whatever reason
known to MS, this minor feature results in the menu being lost when the mouse is
then moved so the popup menus can't be used when focus-follows-pointer is used.
For context specific information that can't be configured by other means (such
as image blocking) this cuts off that functionality. For consistency, it would
seem that all menus should be created on button press and not release.

Comment 1

[:deanis74]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 49844 ***

Comment 2

[Matthew T (active 1999-2002)]

What's that cloud I see on the horizon? I think it's a pack of duplicates of bug 
49844, coming towards us ...

Verified dup.

Comment 3

[:deanis74]

Additional note: focus-follows-pointer issue logged as bug 50798