589762 - The contextual menu does not always appear on right click

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Core :: Widget: Cocoa, defect)

Description

[Pierre Bertet]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; fr; rv:1.9.2.8) Gecko/20100722 Firefox/3.6.8
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:2.0b5pre) Gecko/20100822 Minefield/4.0b5pre

The contextual menu sometimes fails to appear on first right click.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open two tabs and load example.com
2. On first tab, select a word (double left click) and right click on it
3. On the second tab, select a word (double left click) and right click on it
Actual Results:  
The contextual menu does not appear.

Expected Results:  
The contextual menu should appear.

Tested on OS X 10.6, with Firefox 3.6 and Minefield 20100822.

If I’m waiting 1 sec. between the selection and the right click, the contextual menu is appearing as expected.

Comment 1

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+2]]

Looks like to be an OS X only bug. Works fine for me with a build on Windows. Josh or Steven, do you have an idea?

Comment 2

[Steven Michaud [:smichaud] (Retired)]

I can reproduce this (in FF 3.6.8 and today's trunk, 1.9.2-branch and
1.9.1-branch nightlies, on OS X 10.5.8).

The bug is very strange.  It happens only "once", until you switch
tabs (then it happens only "once" again):  If you go through the steps
quickly enough, you can make it happen several times in a row.  But
after it's stopped happening, it won't happen again until you switch
tabs.

I'd guess this is some kind of focus issue, and/or possibly a timer
issue.  By testing near the edge of the browser window, I've found
that the context menu doesn't open behind the browser window -- it
doesn't open at all.  Beyond that I can't say.

Here's the regression range:

firefox-2006-09-28-08-trunk
firefox-2006-09-29-06-trunk

So this started happening as soon as Cocoa widgets was turned on.

Comment 3

[juan becerra [:juanb]]

At this very moment I can reproduce this problem on 4.0b6pre (Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:2.0b6pre) Gecko/20100905 Firefox/4.0b6pre). I'm in the twitter.com/home page and I can bring up the context menu on some links but not in others.

Comment 4

[Benjamin Smedberg]

This is probably related to the "can only type in textareas for a bit, then I have to focus away and back again" thing, which *might* be bug 592563.

Comment 5

[Steven Michaud [:smichaud] (Retired)]

> This is probably related to the "can only type in textareas for a
> bit, then I have to focus away and back again" thing, which *might*
> be bug 592563.

This bug (bug 589762) isn't related to bug 592563, though both are
focus bugs.  Bug 592563 has to do with plugins; this bug doesn't.

Comment 6

[Steven Michaud [:smichaud] (Retired)]

In fact I can no longer reproduce this bug on the trunk.

The last nightly in which I can reproduce it is
2010-08-27-03-mozilla-central.  So this bug must (I think) have been
fixed by the patch for bug 130078 (the same patch that triggered bug
592563).

What you're talking about, Marcia, must be a different bug.

Comment 7

[Steven Michaud [:smichaud] (Retired)]

Marcia -> Juan

Oops :-)

Comment 8

[Steven Michaud [:smichaud] (Retired)]

> So this bug must (I think) have been fixed by the patch for bug
> 130078 (the same patch that triggered bug 592563).

Specifically the part of the patch for bug 130078 that removed
subframe widgets.

Comment 9

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+2]]

Works fine for me too. Can't see it anymore with todays nightly build on OS X and the given steps in comment 0.

Comment 10

[Pierre Bertet]

Works for me too (Minefield 20100908).

Comment 11

[Steven Michaud [:smichaud] (Retired)]

Fixed by second part of patch for bug 130078 (which removed subframe widgets).