523407 - Context menu key frequently misses dictionary suggestions

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Firefox :: Keyboard Navigation, defect)

Description

[Yuri Astrakhan]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.4) Gecko/20091007 Firefox/3.5.4 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.4) Gecko/20091007 Firefox/3.5.4 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)

While typing text in a multi-line text field (eg gmail), frequently (but not always) the keyboard context menu button (usually located next to the right Ctrl button) brings up the context menu without the expected suggestions. Right clicking on the misspelled word works fine.

Reproducible: Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Start typing in a large text field (like gmail message box)
2. Misspell a word
3. Move the caret (not the mouse) to that word, and press the "context menu" keyboard button.
Actual Results:  
The entire context menu is shown up, but frequently without the spelling suggestions.

Expected Results:  
I want my spelling suggestions back! Just like when right-clicking the same word.

Comment 1

[Phil]

(In reply to comment #0)
> User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.4)
> Gecko/20091007 Firefox/3.5.4 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)
> Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.4)
> Gecko/20091007 Firefox/3.5.4 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)
> 
> While typing text in a multi-line text field (eg gmail), frequently (but not
> always) the keyboard context menu button (usually located next to the right
> Ctrl button) brings up the context menu without the expected suggestions. Right
> clicking on the misspelled word works fine.
> 
> Reproducible: Sometimes
> 
> Steps to Reproduce:
> 1. Start typing in a large text field (like gmail message box)
> 2. Misspell a word
> 3. Move the caret (not the mouse) to that word, and press the "context menu"
> keyboard button.
> Actual Results:  
> The entire context menu is shown up, but frequently without the spelling
> suggestions.
> 
> Expected Results:  
> I want my spelling suggestions back! Just like when right-clicking the same
> word.

I have the same problem, only I can get the spelling suggestions by moving the caret above the word I want checked. This can be impossible if I'm in a single line text field, or the first line of a multi-lined text field. For the later I can move the caret to just before the word, hit return so it goes to the line below and then move the caret above the word, so I can check it, but this is not desirable behaviour, and like I say, impossible to work around in single-lined text fields. Right-clicking always works fine, it's just the menu-key on the keyboard that I'm having problems with.

I'm using the latest version of Firefox (3.5.4), with Linux as the OS.

Comment 2

[daylin.trenton]

Firefox has no key to copy link since 88. It was removed and not replaced. This is completely unreasonable.

A replacement key that is unusable by human hands is not a replacement. It's not unlike telling people they can vote, if they stand in line for 8 hours without water. That is telling people that they can't vote.

Telling people that there is a new key, but it's across the room where NO ONE, NO HUMAN HAND can reach, is telling them that there is no key.

Firefox has NO KEY to copy link currently.

There was no reason to break this, and I want you to know that I am never going to stop reporting it, and I will be identifying the people who broke it, like Asif Youssuff, personally, until it is identified as the bug that it is.

You broke a browser that millions of people depended on for NO REASON. NO REASON. There was NO REASON TO REMOVE THE HOTKEY TO COPY LINKS FROM FIREFOX.

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