933713 - Make all the menus native — make them appear and disappear correctly, and make them more responsive

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Firefox :: Menus, defect)

Description

[Nicolas Barbulesco]

Mac OS X 10.6.8, Firefox 25.

The contextual menu is not a native Mac OS X menu. This appears in three problems. Two main problems, plus a third one that I am discovering right now.

1) I have a page in Firefox. I right-click on something in the page, and I keep my mouse pressed. The contextual menu comes in, but I don’t find my happiness in it. So I release my mouse.
1a) * Expected behaviour : * The contextual menus goes away. This is how native menus behave on Mac, like in the Finder and in Safari.
1b) * Actual behaviour : * The contextual menus does not go away.

2) The Firefox contextual menu is heavier and slower than a native contextual menu. It feels heavy. And, when my Mac has high load, the Firefox contextual menu takes several seconds to come in, I see its building progressively.

3) Tricky case. In the foreground, I have a Firefox window with a page. In the background, I have my Desktop in the Finder. I briefly right-click on my Desktop. My mouse is released, I have the Finder’s contextual menu. Here come two variants : 3a) or 3b).
3a) In Firefox, I briefly right-click on the page. My mouse is released.
3aa) * Expected behaviour : * The Finder’s contextual menus goes away. Firefox’ contextual menu comes in and stays.
3ab) * Actual behaviour : * The Finder’s contextual menus goes away. Firefox’ contextual menu comes in, but goes away at once ! No way to use it.
3b) In Firefox, I right-click on the page, and I keep my mouse pressed.
3ba) * Expected behaviour : * The Finder’s contextual menus goes away. Firefox’ contextual menu comes in and stays, as long as I keep my mouse pressed.
3bb) * Actual behaviour : * The Finder’s contextual menus goes away. Firefox’ contextual menu comes in, but goes away at once ! No way to use it.

The menus of the menu bar do not have these problems.

Here is some insight regarding the problems 1 and 3 : 

In Mac OS X, there are two ways of using a menu with the mouse.

The first way is the way of the classic Mac OS : I click the menu, I keep my mouse pressed, and when I am on the item I want I release my mouse.

The second way is the “new one” : I briefly click the menu, I release my mouse. The menu stays open, I stroll in it, and when I am on the item I want I click again.

Alas, Firefox’ contextual menu has only the second way.

Thank you for improving that.

Nicolas

Comment 1

[Nicolas Barbulesco]

Now, I encounter another problem like these. 

In Firefox 25.0.1 on Mavericks.

Here in Disqus http://www.france3.fr/emission/les-complices#comment-1157722882 right-clicking on the YouTube link in the first way does not work : the contextual menu comes in, but when I release my mouse the menu stays. However, right-clicking on this link in the second way does work.

Usually, right-clicking on a link in the first way is OK in Firefox.

Comment 2

[Nicolas Barbulesco]

The contextual menu of a download in the new Downloads bubble (at the top-right) also suffers from these problems.

Comment 3

[Nicolas Barbulesco]

In Firefox 29 on Mavericks, I reproduce these problems.

The Tabs menu (the triangle at the right of the tabs when the window has many tabs) also suffers from these problems.