77838 - when in a frame w/o form elements, form mgr items should not be in context menu

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

i don't think bug 54149 and bug 54300 specifically cover this, so...

when i bring up a context menu in an active frame which does not contain any
form elements, the context menu shouldn't have the three form manager items
[Prefill Form, Save Form Data, View Stored Data] --even if there's another frame
in the same frameset that does have form elements.

to observe:
1. go to http://www.faqs.org/
2. click in either the top banner frame, or the left-hand frame --neither of
which contain form elements.
3. bring up the context menu.

expected: shouldn't see the form manager items.

result: the context menu is artificially larger because it contains those three
items, which aren't applicable to the active frame anyhow.

Comment 1

[Stephen P. Morse]

This was done by design.  I went to great pains to process all the frames on the 
page, not just the one that the user clicked in.

I treat the entire page and not just a particular frame when the user wants to 
prefill.  So the context menu should show these items if there is a form 
anywhere on the page and not just in the current frame.

Comment 2

[Blake Ross]

Sounds like this is a wontfix, according to morse.  I agree with this
resolution.  On many pages it's difficult to tell that the page is even using
frames.