58065 - Cannot single click browser context menus

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 16766

(Core :: XUL, defect, P3)

Description

[computergeek]

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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux 2.2.16-9mdk i686; en-US; m18) Gecko/20001025
BuildID:    2000102508

When I right click on a web page and hold the mouse button down the context menu
selector doesn't follow the mouse. Therefore, I cannot release the mouse button
on the action I want to perform and have it run. You have to let up on the right
click, then click again with the left button. This works as of today in the
Location bar, but not inside the main window.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
Right click in the main window, keep holding the mouse button down, and try to
release the button over top of a context menu item. It will not perform the
action until you click on it again with the left mouse button.


Actual Results:

Expected Results:  It should highlight the context menu item that your mouse is
currently over and execute that action when you release the right mouse button.

Comment 1

[Jacob Steenhagen]

The behaviour in Win32 is to not even show the context menu until the MouseUp
event occurs.

Comment 2

[Mike Pinkerton (not reading bugmail)]

you understand the right thing here, saari, since you made the changes...

Comment 3

[Alvaro Munoz-Aycuens]

This is a duplicate of bug # 16766.
Original summary below

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To use a context menu, you need to Ctrl+click to activate the menu (click-and-
hold doesn't work, but that's probably a separate bug), and then you need
*another* click to select the item.

OBSERVED ON

apprunner for MacOS, 1999-10-18 build

TO REPRODUCE

In apprunner, Ctrl+drag in a Web page, in an attempt to bring up the context menu
and select an item.

WHAT HAPPENS

The context menu appears, but the mouse drag selects text (and may even scroll
the Web page) under the menu. The mousebutton must be released before the menu
starts highlighting items in response to the mouse pointer, and another click is
required to actually select an item.

WHAT SHOULD HAPPEN

The context menu should take focus from its parent window, and a menu item should
be selectable by letting the mouse button go (with or without Ctrl still down)
over the item. So a context menu should be usable with two clicks (as currently),
or with one drag.


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 16766 ***

Comment 4

[saari (gone)]

No, the context menu should *not* "take focus". The command should work, but
leave focus in the parent document.

Comment 5

[Scott Brodmerkle]

Verified dupe.