[Bug 187313] Re: right click (with button release) might activate popup-menu-item

[Alexander Sack]

On Thu, Jun 05, 2008 at 07:34:41PM -0000, Andr?? Pirard wrote:
> 
> > That bug is supposed to be fixed in RC1. What is left here is _true_
> > random selection - which has been confirmed multipl times, but noone
> > could come up with easy to follow instructions to reproduce it.
> >   
> Did you try what I mentioned?
> Use a slow system (or slow it down), be sure to have Flash enabled, go 
> to Google News, easiest is to make some search by date, you get an URL 
> list, right-click-open-link-in-new-tab it in sequence rapidly. Assuming 
> you'll have as many Flash ads as here, you may meet the problem.
> Firefox does not make good multitasking, the Flash player probably 
> blocks resources (why the heck does it play in the background? (spending 
> CPU time showing things nobody sees)) and the focus window does not 
> receive its share of processing time. These timing issues probably 
> reveal a mouse driving bug that doesn't show  otherwise.
> On a small computer of mine, response time and false clicks appear with 
> 6-8 launched windows running.
> If I do the same experiment with Flash applet disabled, it's well after 
> launching 20 windows that the problem starts to manifest faintly.

Thanks for the testcase. Anyone can reproduce it with those
instructions?

 status incomplete


> 
> Also, the repeated crashes that made FF disappear without notice nor 
> apologies were obviously caused by Flash.
> 

Yes, Flash unfortunately comes with many crashes, yes. Most crashes
however are no firefox bugs. Have you tried the flash 10 preview?
maybe it improves stability?

> I wonder why we he have beta software in a LTS release.
> Now I enable Flash only for the time I really need it .   Way way way 
> cooler.

... not related to this bug.

> 
> But yet, if only for trying :
> Question : may I install both FF2 and FF3 to run in the same system?
> 

... questions are better asked on http://answers.launchpad.net

 - Alexander


** Changed in: firefox
       Status: Confirmed => Incomplete

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