[Bug 187313] Re: right click on a link does strange things

[Umang]

André Pirard,
Yes, that's true. I find that I can't produce the bug each time. Though I can't think of what I can do to verify that its Firefox that's the problem. (I'm just a little over a month old in the Linux world, so I don't know what else is behind this).

I do find that I this doesn't happen at all with Live Bookmarks (right
click an item, press escape, right click on the item covering "Open in a
new tab" [I right click in at the bottom of an item, so that the "Open
in a new tab" covers as much of the other item's height as possible] and
the menu opens exactly as it is supposed to] I've tried this quite a few
times, and can't find the bug at all. So I think its not a problem with
any outside application working the menus.

Plus, I experimented a bit more. This is even more surprising, try it on
Google. I got the menu, pressed escape, then using Ctrl+Tab (actually, I
can do it by moving the mouse and changing the tabs by clicking also,
now that I have tried) I changed tabs until I finally got back to the
original tab, and then I right click back on the place where it would
have said "Save Link As" and it still gives me the "Save Link As"
dialog! This made me try a little more, to see what Tabs had got to do
with all this:

I tried this: Google for the same keyword. Scroll the exact amount, then
right click on one tab, move to the next tab right click on the place
where it would have said "Save Link As". and within a few attempts I
managed to reproduce the bug. So it works across tabs as well.

BUT (and I think this is surprising as well), I haven't managed to do
this by not right clicking a link. As in I cannot right click a link and
then right click on the body of the page where the menu item was and
right click there. It just pops up the normal menu.

Other things to be noted:
 *  I can refresh the page, or even use the search bar to search for something else, and then right click when the menu item was and still Firefox behaves as though I clicked on the menu item itself (as in the bug still exists there as well).
 *  Left clicking just behaves as if I clicked the link (correct behaviour). - The bug doesn't pop up here
 *  As many times as I left click outside the menu area + press escape, etc I still get the bug. (i.e.: I can right click, then left click outside the menu area 5 times, press escape 5 times, then go back and right click on the place where the menu item was and I still get the bug.

I think this bug deserves more attention. It might not be a security
hole, but it does make me spend 1.5 times the amount of time I should
spend on a site than I should if I am just looking for links (like
Google, for instance).

I have explained whatever I can make of the bug as much as possible. I
hope someone in-charge with please look into it.

Thanks,

Umang

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right click on a link does strange things
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