608906 - Right click in Google maps not working on Mac

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 426643

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[markp1950]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.2.12) Gecko/20101026 Firefox/3.6.12
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.2.12) Gecko/20101026 Firefox/3.6.12

When I right click in map portion, the box doesn't come up.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.open google maps
2.right click on maps part
3.nothing comes up.......
Actual Results:  
nothing

Expected Results:  
a box opens with various options like directions from here...

Comment 1

[Tim (fmdeveloper)]

Does the issue still occur if you start Firefox in Safe Mode? http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Safe+Mode

How about with a new, empty profile? http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Basic+Troubleshooting#Make_a_new_profile

WFM - Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.12) Gecko/20101026 Firefox/3.6.12 ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET4.0E) ID:20101026210630

Comment 2

[Tim (fmdeveloper)]

Reporter -> Are you still experiencing this issue? Have you tried safe mode or a new profile?

Comment 3

[Greg]

I can reproduce this bug (as can all my colleagues). I have tried running in safe mode and creating a new profile and the bug persists.  
(I'm on Mac OS X 10.6.5 and FF 3.6.13)

WORK-AROUND
The work-around is that you can hold down Command+Left-click (the work-around for older one-button mac mice) and the menu will appear.  It just won't appear when you Right-Click.

I work on a web application where we have a right-click menu as well, and it works on all browsers and platforms except MAC OSX with Firefox.

I think I've ready this bug was introduced in FF 3.5, but I cannot confirm.  

I know the developers at Google are aware of the issue as well.  See this lengthy discussion: http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/maps/thread?tid=713793380043a635&hl=en

Comment 4

[Greg]

Here's a link to our development site where we have right-click implemented as well:
http://hgwdev.cse.ucsc.edu/cgi-bin/hgTracks

There you "should" be able to right-click on any of the horizontal bars, lines or block in the genome browser view there and a menu will show (actually you can click almost anwhere in the graphic). It works in all other browsers and platform combination we've tried, except FF on Mac OSX.

Comment 5

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

the testcase from comment #4 is wfm with Seamonkey trunk and FF4.0b7 on win32

open preferences -> content -> Javascript/advanced and check that "disable or replace context menus" is checked/enabled 

Tomcat: Sorry i know that this is outside of your job but could you do me a favor and test this on OS X ? We have no triager with OS X :-(

Comment 6

[Greg]

Yeah, this is a MacOSX+FF specific issue...

Yes, the "disable or replace context menus" is checked/enabled in my browser (FF 3.6.13). Still doesn't work.

Comment 7

[Greg]

I just tried it on MacOSX + FF 3.5.16 and has the same issue, the workaround works.

Then tried on FF4.0b7 and the bug is still there, but now the workaround (CNTL+Left-Click) doesn't seem to work either.

Comment 8

[juan becerra [:juanb]]

On the latest Minefield on Mac 10.6, right mouse pad click doesn't work for me, but ctrl-left click works for me. When was the last build where this worked?

Comment 9

[Tim (fmdeveloper)]

Confirmed by tchung in #qa on Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:2.0b9pre) Gecko/20101220 Firefox/4.0b9pre

Found a dupe - Bug 426643