719017 - Unable to select and access context menu on links (thestar.com/iphone)

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Web Compatibility :: Site Reports, defect)

Description

[Aaron Train [:aaronmt]]

Currently when one taps and holds on a link in order to open a context menu to open the designated link in a new tab, nothing happens:

STR:

1. See bug URL (i.e, http://thestar.com/iphone)
2. Tap and hold on any news article 

ER: Context menu ("Open in a new tab")
AR: Nothing happens. All I see are GeckoLayerController & GeckoPanZoomController related events when tapping and holding on a link.

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Samsung Nexus S (Android 4.0.3)
Mozilla/5.0 (Android; Linux armv7l; rv:12.0a1) Gecko/20120118 Firefox/12.0a1 Fennec/12.0a1

Comment 1

[Aaron Train [:aaronmt]]

The second issue is that I cant select any of the links.

Comment 2

[Aaron Train [:aaronmt]]

(In reply to Aaron Train [:aaronmt] from comment #1)
> The second issue is that I cant select any of the links.

(Scratch that, I can select them, just cant trigger a context menu on the article links).

Comment 3

[Doug Turner (:dougt)]

still a problem?  what about on maple?

Comment 4

[Cameron McCormack (:heycam)]

I used to have this problem but it seems to work now on the latest Nightly.

Comment 5

[Kevin Brosnan [Ex-Mozilla]]

This is a problem on a tinderbox maple build from earlier today. Same on today's trunk nightly. Cameron this is a problem on the specific site mentioned in the URL section of this bug.

Comment 6

[Cameron McCormack (:heycam)]

ack. I was having this problem more generally previously, but can confirm I can't get the context menu on that URL's links.

Comment 7

[Aaron Train [:aaronmt]]

Correct. It is a problem on this site, as outlined in the bug summary.

Comment 8

[Martijn Wargers (dead)]

The 'links' on those page are not real links. See with desktop Firefox, you don't get the link context menu there, either.
They're using <div>'s with onclick='location=' etc.

So I would say, this is invalid or a tech evangelism bug.

Comment 9

[Doug Turner (:dougt)]

evangelism bug

Comment 10

[Aaron Train [:aaronmt]]

Contacted their webmaster

Comment 11

[Aaron Train [:aaronmt]]

They changed their site design recently and this issue is no more.