[Bug 231078] [NEW] Firefox right click menu has a mind of its own

[davidpbrown]

Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: firefox-3.0

This is hard to reliably reproduce but frequent enough to be a real
nuisance.

When Firefox isn't busy right-click apparently works fine.

When Firefox is working on another tab/window and the user tries to
right-click a link, it sometimes doesn't display the menu but instead
just randomly auto-selects one of the options.

I've seen this enough now to know it's not just me being daft an rolling
the mouse over the selection etc. This is a single unmoved right click
doing this.

It's usually when I'm opening multiple links to load in the background..
a reddit.com list of links for example.

Trying to reproduce this by opening multiple links in other tabs one
after another the closest I'm getting is an occasional slow-down of the
display menu, so I wonder it might be an extension of that when a page
displaying is taking more effort??

Obviously, a fraction of the time I get the result I want but the odds
as against me and I often get the bookmark or save-as instead.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Fri May 16 14:37:59 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: firefox-3.0 3.0~b5+nobinonly-0ubuntu3
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: firefox-3.0
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-16-generic i686

** Affects: firefox-3.0 (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: apport-bug

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Firefox right click menu has a mind of its own
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