601357 - right clicking anything (selected text or link) doesn't trigger a context menu

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox :: Menus, defect)

Description

[logos]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:2.0b7pre) Gecko/20101001 Firefox/4.0b7pre
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:2.0b7pre) Gecko/20101001 Firefox/4.0b7pre

exactly what the title says, it happens off and on and exclusively in Firefox 4 beta series (pre-builds like final betas). 

Reproducible: Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
1.select text on a web page
2.right click
3.
Actual Results:  
no context menu appears

Expected Results:  
a context menu :)

it just happens off and on. Gnerally closing the browser and re-opening it "fixes" the problem until next time.

Comment 1

[logos]

should have mentioned that of course, in the same conditions, right clicking a link on a web page doesn't trigger a context menu either. So this is a general issue with the "right click"

Comment 2

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+2]]

Do you see any failure in the error console?

Comment 3

[logos]

sorry that's a bit stupid because it happened again a few minutes ago, and I didn't check. Good though as I realized that the error console wasn't enabled like it was by default on FF3.* . It's running now, there are a few events that I can't link to this issue, because I have no idea how to interpret them.

 All I can say is that the right click issue often happens after a session has been opened for a while, and that it's definitely in firefox as I got the right click still working anywhere else on my desktop when it happens.

 I got many warnings and errors in the console. If you told me what to look for that would help. Thanks

ps: ...no luck, I just very stupidly clicked on the "clear" button, so there's nothing now. I'll just open the console next time the right click problem happens, and report back here.

Comment 4

[logos]

I got this error message, seems related to a VirusTotal extension that I installed not long ago.

var vtzilla = {

    onLoad: function() {

        // initialization code
        this.initialized = true;
        document.getElementById("contentAreaContextMenu").addEventListener("popupshowing", this.showContextMenu, false);
        document.getElementById("messagePaneContext").addEventListener("popupshowing", this.showContextMenu, false);

    },

    showContextMenu: function(event) {

        // show or hide the menuitem based on what the context menu is on
        // see http://kb.mozillazine.org/Adding_items_to_menus
        var menuitem = document.getElementById("context-vtzilla");
        menuitem.hidden = ! gContextMenu.onLink;

    },

    onMenuItemCommand: function(e) {

        if (gContextMenu.onLink) {

            var href = 'getLinkURL' in gContextMenu ? gContextMenu.getLinkURL() : gContextMenu.linkURL();
            url_to_check = escape( href );

		forceScan(url_to_check);

        }

    },

    onScanthisButtonCommand: function(e) {

        // just reuse the function above.  you can change this, obviously!
        var current_url = window.top.getBrowser().selectedBrowser.contentWindow.location.href;
        if (current_url != "about:blank") {
             forceScan(current_url);
        } else {

            var vtzillaStrings = srGetStrBundle("chrome://vtzilla/locale/vtzilla.properties");
            var noSite = vtzillaStrings.GetStringFromName("noSite");
            alert(noSite);

        }

    }

};

function forceScan(url){

    parameters = "force=1&url="+url;

    http_request = new XMLHttpRequest();
    http_request.onreadystatechange = getReport;
    http_request.open('POST', force_scan_url, true);
    http_request.setRequestHeader("Content-type", "application/x-www-form-urlencoded");
    http_request.setRequestHeader("Content-length", parameters.length);
    http_request.setRequestHeader("Connection", "close");
    http_request.send(parameters);

}

function getReport() {

    try {
        var vtzillaStrings = srGetStrBundle("chrome://vtzilla/locale/vtzilla.properties");
        var scanError = vtzillaStrings.GetStringFromName("scanError");
    } catch(e) {
        scanError = "Sorry, there was an error with your scan request.";
    }

    if (http_request.readyState == 4) {

        if (http_request.status == 200) {

            result = eval(http_request.responseText);
	      if (result[0] == 1) {

                var win = Components.classes['@mozilla.org/appshell/window-mediator;1']
                    .getService(Components.interfaces.nsIWindowMediator)
                    .getMostRecentWindow('navigator:browser');
                win.openUILinkIn(main_site+result[1], 'tab');

	      } else {

	          alert(scanError);
	      }    
     
        } else {
            alert(scanError);
        }
    }
}

function virustotalSearch() {

    var term = document.getElementById("vtzilla-search-term").value;

    var dataString = "chain="+term;

    // POST method requests must wrap the encoded text in a MIME
    // stream
    const Cc = Components.classes;
    const Ci = Components.interfaces;
    var stringStream = Cc["@mozilla.org/io/string-input-stream;1"].
                       createInstance(Ci.nsIStringInputStream);
    if ("data" in stringStream){ // Gecko 1.9 or newer
        stringStream.data = dataString;
    } else { // 1.8 or older
        stringStream.setData(dataString, dataString.length);
    }

    var postData = Cc["@mozilla.org/network/mime-input-stream;1"].
                   createInstance(Ci.nsIMIMEInputStream);
    postData.addHeader("Content-Type", "application/x-www-form-urlencoded");
    postData.addContentLength = true;
    postData.setData(stringStream);

    // Add tab, then make active
    gBrowser.selectedTab = gBrowser.addTab(search_url, null, null, postData);

}

function capEnterKey(aEvent) {
    if (aEvent.keyCode == KeyEvent.DOM_VK_RETURN) {
        virustotalSearch();
    }
}

window.addEventListener("load", function(e) { vtzilla.onLoad(e); }, false);

Comment 5

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+2]]

Please run Firefox in safe mode for a while, simply to check if an extension is causing this problem. If that's the case you should disable those step by step until the issue is solved.

Comment 6

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

I see 
 Error: statusbar is null
Source File: chrome://snaplinks/content/snaplinks.js
Line: 128

so perhaps In my case (I haven't tested by disabling) snaplinks addon is involved.

Comment 7

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

(In reply to comment #6)
> so perhaps In my case (I haven't tested by disabling) snaplinks addon is
> involved.

and indeed it worked fine after I disabled snaplinks

Comment 8

[Tyler Downer [He/Him]]

No reply, INCOMPLETE. Please retest with Firefox 3.6.11 or later and a new profile (http://support.mozilla.com/kb/Managing+profiles). If you continue to see this issue with the newest firefox and a new profile, then please comment on this bug.