59721 - Right-click menu doesn't become active until mouse button is released.

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 16766

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect, P3)

Description

[Ryan King]

Before this is too quickly marked as a duplicate, I want to start off by saying
this isn't at all what is described in:
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30497

In NSN4.* on Linux, I was in the habit of going "Back" by doing the following:
1. Right-click pretty much anywhere on the page.
2. While still holding the button down, drag the cursor down just a couple pixels.
3. Releasing right button.

Also, with a little bit of Xresource customization, you can make NSN go back by
simply right-clicking.  The menu will only come up if you drag the mouse down.
This is a little harder to get used to, but it is blazingly fast -- I can even
beat those darn meta tag redirects by right-clicking fast enough.

Either of these methods are much faster than reaching for the keyboard or using
the "Back" button in the toolbar.  These "techniques" cannot be done with
Mozilla (as far as I know), as the menu is not operational until the mouse
button is released and then re-pressed.  I suspect that it might be possible to
do this with skins, but I haven't tried that yet.

I understand that not all of the UI features of NSN are going to be retained,
and I also understand that context menus in Win32 do not become active until you
release the button.  However, I know that I am not the only one who expects the
menus to behave this way, and don't really think the menu behavior will be
startling for those who haven't used it this way before.

Was this a decision made on purpose, something that just wasn't considered/isn't
important, or in the TODO bin?

Any clarification (or fixes!) would be great.

Many thanks!
 - Ryan King

Comment 1

[Scott Brodmerkle]

This is a dupe of bug 16766.

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

Comment 2

[R.K.Aa.]

verified dup of 16766 "xpPopups and context menus can't be used with a single drag"