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

2008-06-30 Thread Joakim Asplund
The problem seems to be that the popup menu is displayed on button-down, not button-up like on Windows. If the mouse is being moved just a little bit at the same time it might be over an item when the button is released. This could either be solved by changing the popup to appear on button release

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

2008-07-04 Thread Mik3
I can confirm this problem Intrepid Alpha 1. Firefox 3 ; Extentions: Adblock Plus, Customize Google, Personal Menu, Fission & NoScript. -- [MASTER] right click (with button release) might activate popup-menu-item https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/187313 You received this bug notification because y

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

2008-07-18 Thread Del Griffith
My family and I notice this all of the time. It appears most often when using YouTube, and there's already a Flash video playing, but it happens at other times. Often it occurs when there's a heavy load in the browser, like when I have several YouTube pages open at the same time in tabs, and I go

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

2008-07-07 Thread Alexander Sack
** Changed in: firefox-3.0 (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed => Triaged -- [MASTER] right click (with button release) might activate popup-menu-item https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/187313 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -

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

2008-07-07 Thread Joakim Asplund
I've started holding down the button and choose menu items by releasing it to work around this. Actually, it's quite nice to do it that way. Still, I think it would be good if a delay was introduced before releasing the mouse button can choose menu items. Does firefox use Gtk menus or does it use

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

2008-06-06 Thread Bug Watch Updater
** Changed in: firefox Status: Incomplete => Confirmed -- [MASTER] right click (with button release) might activate popup-menu-item https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/187313 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-

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

2008-06-08 Thread David Miller
It seems that sometimes the context menu is drawn at a location such that one of the menu selections is underneath the cursor. Just a little, but that's all it takes. I can reproduce this easily by displaying a page of thumbnail results from Google Advanced image search (http://images.google.com/a

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

2008-06-08 Thread Rocko
@David Miller: are you using the RC1 version of firefox, or the beta 5? Doing what you suggest occasionally triggers the random bug for me in RC1, but I never see the menu actually being drawn. It seems that you _might_ be describing the separate bug only present in beta 5 where the menu is drawn o

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

2008-08-08 Thread Dany Alejandro Cabrera
Just wanted to confirm this in a COMPAQ F754LA laptop with Ubuntu 8.04.1 fresh installation. I always had this problem (random action at right click in link), no matter if I use the synaptics touchpad or an external usb mouse. It seems to me that the ctrl, shift and alt keys are randomly pressed

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

2008-08-09 Thread Dante Díaz
the same problem happens to me sometimes.. Firefox/3.0.1 -- [MASTER] right click (with button release) might activate popup-menu-item https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/187313 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs

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

2008-08-12 Thread Anders Feder
For what's its worth, I have this problem too and its pretty annoying. Basically, what happens (as far as I can tell) is that you right-click to get the context menu and if you accidentally move the mouse just one bit before releasing the button, Firefox registers it as a click on whichever item h

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

2008-06-20 Thread Maddev
I change Protocol option from ImPS/2 to ExplorerPS/2 at mouse configuration and problem disapear. I'm using FF3 and Ubuntu 8.04. The fragment of xorg.conf: Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Configured Mouse" Driver "mouse" Option "CorePointer" Option

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

2008-06-21 Thread Maddev
My previous post doesn't solve the problem but it occurs less often -- [MASTER] right click (with button release) might activate popup-menu-item https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/187313 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- u

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

2008-06-02 Thread Alexander Sack
** Summary changed: - right click (with button release) might activate popup-menu-item + [MASTER] right click (with button release) might activate popup-menu-item -- [MASTER] right click (with button release) might activate popup-menu-item https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/187313 You received this

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

2008-06-02 Thread slasher-fun
If this bug is now classified as "master", maybe we should increase its importance... -- [MASTER] right click (with button release) might activate popup-menu-item https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/187313 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed

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

2008-06-02 Thread Rocko
I have the same observations as slasher-fun: for me the random selection bug (ie different from the one fixed in the RC1 package) occurs at random intervals, sometimes frequently and sometimes rarely. Sometimes it will happen two clicks in a row. I get it on two different computers, a laptop with a

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

2008-06-02 Thread Rocko
In case this info helps, I actually did a clean install of Hardy 32bit two days ago on a Dell XPS 1530 because I was unable to get wine to link the 32 bit libs I needed in the amd64 version. The problem with FF happens with a brand spanking new user profile with no plugins. Normally I have just ha

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

2008-10-09 Thread Bryce Harrington
I can confirm Aswarp's comment in comment #105. I have dom.event.contextmenu.enabled set to true (it seems to be on by default, as I also have never altered it), yet am still seeing the bug. This is sort of subjective, but it *seems* like I see it less often now than I used to. Possibly my finge

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

2008-10-10 Thread vbois
I am having the exact same issue on my synaptics touchpad laptop, on every version from 3.0 betas to 3.1a2 (current) running Windows Vista. This seems to be a platform-independent bug and nothing to do with Ubuntu, since I have also seen it on Windows XP. -- [MASTER] right click (with button rele

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

2008-10-10 Thread Jean-Philippe Fleury
I confirm this bug with Firefox 3.0.3 in Ubuntu 8.04.1. It doesn't happen only when I click right on a link, but anywhere I click right on the page or even on a tab. -- [MASTER] right click (with button release) might activate popup-menu-item https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/187313 You received th

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

2008-11-04 Thread mrgil
I've noticed this behavior in FF3.0 - FF3.0.3 for months. When I right click on a link, sometimes I get the menu, but equally as often, I get a chance to create a bookmark, send an email, or am automatically sent to the link in a new tab. It is certainly frustrating. Glad to see I'm not the only

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

2008-11-04 Thread residentalien
So who is working on fixing this? We have been complaining about this for months and the only update to the forum is "oh it happens to me too". Come on people, we can't use this software if you won't fix the problems we report. At least let us know you agree that it is a bug and you are working

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

2008-11-05 Thread Alexander Sack
also look at the bug status. its triaged and reported in bugzilla ... not more we can show you that this is accepted as a bug. -- [MASTER] right click (with button release) might activate popup-menu-item https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/187313 You received this bug notification because you are a m

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

2008-11-05 Thread Alexander Sack
residentialien, the problem about this bug is that its hard to reproduce. apparently those that see it, see it regularly, but the rest doesnt see it at all. "What is the point of open source software if no-one is fixing the bugs?" ... no comments on that thats clearly a rant and doesnt belong in a

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

2008-10-31 Thread macabro22
This is happening to me on a Dell XPS m1739 using an USB mouse and Intrepid Ibex. It did't use to happen in Hardy Heron. I am using a modified firefox theme called Strata-O-Various 1.3. -- [MASTER] right click (with button release) might activate popup-menu-item https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/18

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

2008-11-01 Thread sankaran
Right click on Firefox 3.0.3 in Intrepid Ibex brings evolution or opens a new firefox window or some random action very frequently. It used to be happening less frequently with Hardy Heron. -- [MASTER] right click (with button release) might activate popup-menu-item https://bugs.launchpad.net/bug

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

2008-11-02 Thread Gabriel Velo
I can confirm this annoying problem in Intrepid Ibex. When I do a right click over a link or a page ,I get a random selection over the context menu options. -- [MASTER] right click (with button release) might activate popup-menu-item https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/187313 You received this bug n

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

2008-11-02 Thread Jean-Philippe Fleury
I've updated Ubuntu 8.04 to Ubuntu 8.10 and I confirm that this bug is still there. -- [MASTER] right click (with button release) might activate popup-menu-item https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/187313 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed t

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

2008-10-25 Thread Aswarp
I got the same impressions as Bryce Harrington about holding down the mouse button in order to avoid getting kicked to any other menu action, but it won't always work. -- [MASTER] right click (with button release) might activate popup-menu-item https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/187313 You received

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

2008-10-25 Thread Aswarp
I got the same impressions as Bryce Harrigton about holding down the mouse button in order to avoid getting kicked to any other menu action, but it won't always work. -- [MASTER] right click (with button release) might activate popup-menu-item https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/187313 You received t

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

2008-10-21 Thread Dennis Heinson
1. This Bug persists in Firefox 3.0.3 in Intrepid as of 10-21-2008. 2. This Bug is ONLY Mozilla-related, not GNOME, XORG or Metacity-related. It happens in Windows too, and on Mac as well. 3. This Bug is NOT touchpad-related. I am seeing it on the touchpad, my Thinkpad's trackpoint AND my bluetoo

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

2008-09-16 Thread Roman Polach
setting dom.event.contextmenu.enabled to true solves problem for me. -- [MASTER] right click (with button release) might activate popup-menu-item https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/187313 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. --

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

2008-09-17 Thread Roman Polach
I am taking it back. Now I see the problem again, it is only harder to appear with dom.event.contextmenu.enabled=true -- [MASTER] right click (with button release) might activate popup-menu-item https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/187313 You received this bug notification because you are a member of

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

2008-09-22 Thread Aswarp
Hello brabo: Mi (Firefox v3.0.1 about:config dom.event.contextmenu.enabled) setting was already true. I didn't have to alter it AND the problem with the context menu was happening. So I confirm that the change does not solve the issue. -- [MASTER] right click (with button release) might activat

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

2008-08-17 Thread Alecz20
This bug is REAL. Apparently someone is going to fix it! yay! The funniest thing is when it randomly choses "switch page direction". As a temporary workaround I read that if you keep the right-click button for a bit longer (until the menu appears) prevents the erratic behavior. -- [MASTER] righ

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

2008-08-18 Thread gerben
Summary of useful posts above: This problem arises from the way mouse button presses are handled: pressing down the right mouse button calls up the right-button-menu and then letting go of the right mouse button is interpreted as selecting whatever is underneath the mouse pointer. So if the righ

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

2008-08-26 Thread frenchy82
Thanks a lot gerben. Your solution solved this problem for me -- [MASTER] right click (with button release) might activate popup-menu-item https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/187313 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-

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

2008-09-05 Thread Aswarp
I could if I know what the heck was to filp the dom.event.etcétera. Could you explain yourself a little bit more thoroughly? -- [MASTER] right click (with button release) might activate popup-menu-item https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/187313 You received this bug notification because you are a mem

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

2008-09-05 Thread brabo
aswarp: open in FF page about:config then scroll down to key 'dom,event,contextmenu.enabled' this is a boolean key, it can be true or false. the default is false. change it to true, restart FF and see if it changes the erratic behaviour. brabo. -- [MASTER] right click (with button release) mig

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

2008-08-30 Thread Aswarp
Same problem here. It is quite annoying and very user-unfriendly and easy to encounter with. Sometimes, with patience, if I leave the mouse still for a couple of seconds, the behaviour is correct. However if I click swiftly, Firefox will do whatever it likes (opening tabs, windows, wrong menues,

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

2008-09-02 Thread Aswarp
To give a bit more of information about the bug: It seems that it meay be somewhat related to the cursor's position capture method. For if cursor stands still over the link during 2 or 3 seconds and the the right mouse button is pressed without [X, Y] movement, the correct pop-up menu is shown (

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

2008-06-30 Thread Joakim Asplund
The problem seems to be that the popup menu is displayed on button-down, not button-up like on Windows. If the mouse is being moved just a little bit at the same time it might be over an item when the button is released. This could either be solved by changing the popup to appear on button release

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

2008-06-02 Thread Alexander Sack
** Summary changed: - right click (with button release) might activate popup-menu-item + [MASTER] right click (with button release) might activate popup-menu-item -- [MASTER] right click (with button release) might activate popup-menu-item https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/187313 You received this

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

2008-06-02 Thread slasher-fun
If this bug is now classified as "master", maybe we should increase its importance... -- [MASTER] right click (with button release) might activate popup-menu-item https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/187313 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed

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

2008-06-02 Thread Rocko
I have the same observations as slasher-fun: for me the random selection bug (ie different from the one fixed in the RC1 package) occurs at random intervals, sometimes frequently and sometimes rarely. Sometimes it will happen two clicks in a row. I get it on two different computers, a laptop with a

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

2008-06-02 Thread Rocko
In case this info helps, I actually did a clean install of Hardy 32bit two days ago on a Dell XPS 1530 because I was unable to get wine to link the 32 bit libs I needed in the amd64 version. The problem with FF happens with a brand spanking new user profile with no plugins. Normally I have just ha

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

2008-06-06 Thread Bug Watch Updater
** Changed in: firefox Status: Incomplete => Confirmed -- [MASTER] right click (with button release) might activate popup-menu-item https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/187313 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-

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

2008-06-08 Thread David Miller
It seems that sometimes the context menu is drawn at a location such that one of the menu selections is underneath the cursor. Just a little, but that's all it takes. I can reproduce this easily by displaying a page of thumbnail results from Google Advanced image search (http://images.google.com/a

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

2008-06-08 Thread Rocko
@David Miller: are you using the RC1 version of firefox, or the beta 5? Doing what you suggest occasionally triggers the random bug for me in RC1, but I never see the menu actually being drawn. It seems that you _might_ be describing the separate bug only present in beta 5 where the menu is drawn o

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

2008-07-18 Thread Del Griffith
My family and I notice this all of the time. It appears most often when using YouTube, and there's already a Flash video playing, but it happens at other times. Often it occurs when there's a heavy load in the browser, like when I have several YouTube pages open at the same time in tabs, and I go

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

2008-07-04 Thread Mik3
I can confirm this problem Intrepid Alpha 1. Firefox 3 ; Extentions: Adblock Plus, Customize Google, Personal Menu, Fission & NoScript. -- [MASTER] right click (with button release) might activate popup-menu-item https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/187313 You received this bug notification because y

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

2008-07-07 Thread Alexander Sack
** Changed in: firefox-3.0 (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed => Triaged -- [MASTER] right click (with button release) might activate popup-menu-item https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/187313 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -

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

2008-07-07 Thread Joakim Asplund
I've started holding down the button and choose menu items by releasing it to work around this. Actually, it's quite nice to do it that way. Still, I think it would be good if a delay was introduced before releasing the mouse button can choose menu items. Does firefox use Gtk menus or does it use

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

2008-08-26 Thread frenchy82
Thanks a lot gerben. Your solution solved this problem for me -- [MASTER] right click (with button release) might activate popup-menu-item https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/187313 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-

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

2008-08-08 Thread Dany Alejandro Cabrera
Just wanted to confirm this in a COMPAQ F754LA laptop with Ubuntu 8.04.1 fresh installation. I always had this problem (random action at right click in link), no matter if I use the synaptics touchpad or an external usb mouse. It seems to me that the ctrl, shift and alt keys are randomly pressed

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

2008-08-09 Thread Dante Díaz
the same problem happens to me sometimes.. Firefox/3.0.1 -- [MASTER] right click (with button release) might activate popup-menu-item https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/187313 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs

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

2008-08-12 Thread Anders Feder
For what's its worth, I have this problem too and its pretty annoying. Basically, what happens (as far as I can tell) is that you right-click to get the context menu and if you accidentally move the mouse just one bit before releasing the button, Firefox registers it as a click on whichever item h

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

2008-08-17 Thread Alecz20
This bug is REAL. Apparently someone is going to fix it! yay! The funniest thing is when it randomly choses "switch page direction". As a temporary workaround I read that if you keep the right-click button for a bit longer (until the menu appears) prevents the erratic behavior. -- [MASTER] righ

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

2008-08-18 Thread gerben
Summary of useful posts above: This problem arises from the way mouse button presses are handled: pressing down the right mouse button calls up the right-button-menu and then letting go of the right mouse button is interpreted as selecting whatever is underneath the mouse pointer. So if the righ

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

2008-09-16 Thread Roman Polach
setting dom.event.contextmenu.enabled to true solves problem for me. -- [MASTER] right click (with button release) might activate popup-menu-item https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/187313 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. --

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

2008-09-17 Thread Roman Polach
I am taking it back. Now I see the problem again, it is only harder to appear with dom.event.contextmenu.enabled=true -- [MASTER] right click (with button release) might activate popup-menu-item https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/187313 You received this bug notification because you are a member of

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

2008-10-09 Thread Bryce Harrington
I can confirm Aswarp's comment in comment #105. I have dom.event.contextmenu.enabled set to true (it seems to be on by default, as I also have never altered it), yet am still seeing the bug. This is sort of subjective, but it *seems* like I see it less often now than I used to. Possibly my finge

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

2008-10-10 Thread vbois
I am having the exact same issue on my synaptics touchpad laptop, on every version from 3.0 betas to 3.1a2 (current) running Windows Vista. This seems to be a platform-independent bug and nothing to do with Ubuntu, since I have also seen it on Windows XP. -- [MASTER] right click (with button rele

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

2008-10-10 Thread Jean-Philippe Fleury
I confirm this bug with Firefox 3.0.3 in Ubuntu 8.04.1. It doesn't happen only when I click right on a link, but anywhere I click right on the page or even on a tab. -- [MASTER] right click (with button release) might activate popup-menu-item https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/187313 You received th

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

2008-09-22 Thread Aswarp
Hello brabo: Mi (Firefox v3.0.1 about:config dom.event.contextmenu.enabled) setting was already true. I didn't have to alter it AND the problem with the context menu was happening. So I confirm that the change does not solve the issue. -- [MASTER] right click (with button release) might activat

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

2008-10-21 Thread Dennis Heinson
1. This Bug persists in Firefox 3.0.3 in Intrepid as of 10-21-2008. 2. This Bug is ONLY Mozilla-related, not GNOME, XORG or Metacity-related. It happens in Windows too, and on Mac as well. 3. This Bug is NOT touchpad-related. I am seeing it on the touchpad, my Thinkpad's trackpoint AND my bluetoo

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

2008-10-25 Thread Aswarp
I got the same impressions as Bryce Harrington about holding down the mouse button in order to avoid getting kicked to any other menu action, but it won't always work. -- [MASTER] right click (with button release) might activate popup-menu-item https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/187313 You received

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

2008-10-25 Thread Aswarp
I got the same impressions as Bryce Harrigton about holding down the mouse button in order to avoid getting kicked to any other menu action, but it won't always work. -- [MASTER] right click (with button release) might activate popup-menu-item https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/187313 You received t

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

2008-09-02 Thread Aswarp
To give a bit more of information about the bug: It seems that it meay be somewhat related to the cursor's position capture method. For if cursor stands still over the link during 2 or 3 seconds and the the right mouse button is pressed without [X, Y] movement, the correct pop-up menu is shown (

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

2008-09-05 Thread Aswarp
I could if I know what the heck was to filp the dom.event.etcétera. Could you explain yourself a little bit more thoroughly? -- [MASTER] right click (with button release) might activate popup-menu-item https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/187313 You received this bug notification because you are a mem

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

2008-09-05 Thread brabo
aswarp: open in FF page about:config then scroll down to key 'dom,event,contextmenu.enabled' this is a boolean key, it can be true or false. the default is false. change it to true, restart FF and see if it changes the erratic behaviour. brabo. -- [MASTER] right click (with button release) mig

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

2008-11-04 Thread mrgil
I've noticed this behavior in FF3.0 - FF3.0.3 for months. When I right click on a link, sometimes I get the menu, but equally as often, I get a chance to create a bookmark, send an email, or am automatically sent to the link in a new tab. It is certainly frustrating. Glad to see I'm not the only

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

2008-11-04 Thread residentalien
So who is working on fixing this? We have been complaining about this for months and the only update to the forum is "oh it happens to me too". Come on people, we can't use this software if you won't fix the problems we report. At least let us know you agree that it is a bug and you are working

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

2008-11-05 Thread Alexander Sack
also look at the bug status. its triaged and reported in bugzilla ... not more we can show you that this is accepted as a bug. -- [MASTER] right click (with button release) might activate popup-menu-item https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/187313 You received this bug notification because you are a m

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

2008-11-05 Thread Alexander Sack
residentialien, the problem about this bug is that its hard to reproduce. apparently those that see it, see it regularly, but the rest doesnt see it at all. "What is the point of open source software if no-one is fixing the bugs?" ... no comments on that thats clearly a rant and doesnt belong in a

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

2008-10-31 Thread macabro22
This is happening to me on a Dell XPS m1739 using an USB mouse and Intrepid Ibex. It did't use to happen in Hardy Heron. I am using a modified firefox theme called Strata-O-Various 1.3. -- [MASTER] right click (with button release) might activate popup-menu-item https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/18

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

2008-11-01 Thread sankaran
Right click on Firefox 3.0.3 in Intrepid Ibex brings evolution or opens a new firefox window or some random action very frequently. It used to be happening less frequently with Hardy Heron. -- [MASTER] right click (with button release) might activate popup-menu-item https://bugs.launchpad.net/bug

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

2008-11-02 Thread Gabriel Velo
I can confirm this annoying problem in Intrepid Ibex. When I do a right click over a link or a page ,I get a random selection over the context menu options. -- [MASTER] right click (with button release) might activate popup-menu-item https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/187313 You received this bug n

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

2008-11-02 Thread Jean-Philippe Fleury
I've updated Ubuntu 8.04 to Ubuntu 8.10 and I confirm that this bug is still there. -- [MASTER] right click (with button release) might activate popup-menu-item https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/187313 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed t

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

2008-08-30 Thread Aswarp
Same problem here. It is quite annoying and very user-unfriendly and easy to encounter with. Sometimes, with patience, if I leave the mouse still for a couple of seconds, the behaviour is correct. However if I click swiftly, Firefox will do whatever it likes (opening tabs, windows, wrong menues,

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

2008-06-20 Thread Maddev
I change Protocol option from ImPS/2 to ExplorerPS/2 at mouse configuration and problem disapear. I'm using FF3 and Ubuntu 8.04. The fragment of xorg.conf: Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Configured Mouse" Driver "mouse" Option "CorePointer" Option

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

2008-06-21 Thread Maddev
My previous post doesn't solve the problem but it occurs less often -- [MASTER] right click (with button release) might activate popup-menu-item https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/187313 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- u

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

2008-06-30 Thread Joakim Asplund
The problem seems to be that the popup menu is displayed on button-down, not button-up like on Windows. If the mouse is being moved just a little bit at the same time it might be over an item when the button is released. This could either be solved by changing the popup to appear on button release

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

2008-07-04 Thread Mik3
I can confirm this problem Intrepid Alpha 1. Firefox 3 ; Extentions: Adblock Plus, Customize Google, Personal Menu, Fission & NoScript. -- [MASTER] right click (with button release) might activate popup-menu-item https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/187313 You received this bug notification because y

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

2008-07-18 Thread Del Griffith
My family and I notice this all of the time. It appears most often when using YouTube, and there's already a Flash video playing, but it happens at other times. Often it occurs when there's a heavy load in the browser, like when I have several YouTube pages open at the same time in tabs, and I go

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

2008-07-07 Thread Alexander Sack
** Changed in: firefox-3.0 (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed => Triaged -- [MASTER] right click (with button release) might activate popup-menu-item https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/187313 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -

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

2008-07-07 Thread Joakim Asplund
I've started holding down the button and choose menu items by releasing it to work around this. Actually, it's quite nice to do it that way. Still, I think it would be good if a delay was introduced before releasing the mouse button can choose menu items. Does firefox use Gtk menus or does it use

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

2008-06-20 Thread Maddev
I change Protocol option from ImPS/2 to ExplorerPS/2 at mouse configuration and problem disapear. I'm using FF3 and Ubuntu 8.04. The fragment of xorg.conf: Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Configured Mouse" Driver "mouse" Option "CorePointer" Option

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

2008-06-21 Thread Maddev
My previous post doesn't solve the problem but it occurs less often -- [MASTER] right click (with button release) might activate popup-menu-item https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/187313 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- u

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

2008-08-08 Thread Dany Alejandro Cabrera
Just wanted to confirm this in a COMPAQ F754LA laptop with Ubuntu 8.04.1 fresh installation. I always had this problem (random action at right click in link), no matter if I use the synaptics touchpad or an external usb mouse. It seems to me that the ctrl, shift and alt keys are randomly pressed

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

2008-08-09 Thread Dante Díaz
the same problem happens to me sometimes.. Firefox/3.0.1 -- [MASTER] right click (with button release) might activate popup-menu-item https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/187313 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs

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

2008-08-12 Thread Anders Feder
For what's its worth, I have this problem too and its pretty annoying. Basically, what happens (as far as I can tell) is that you right-click to get the context menu and if you accidentally move the mouse just one bit before releasing the button, Firefox registers it as a click on whichever item h

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

2008-08-17 Thread Alecz20
This bug is REAL. Apparently someone is going to fix it! yay! The funniest thing is when it randomly choses "switch page direction". As a temporary workaround I read that if you keep the right-click button for a bit longer (until the menu appears) prevents the erratic behavior. -- [MASTER] righ

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

2008-08-18 Thread gerben
Summary of useful posts above: This problem arises from the way mouse button presses are handled: pressing down the right mouse button calls up the right-button-menu and then letting go of the right mouse button is interpreted as selecting whatever is underneath the mouse pointer. So if the righ

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

2008-08-26 Thread frenchy82
Thanks a lot gerben. Your solution solved this problem for me -- [MASTER] right click (with button release) might activate popup-menu-item https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/187313 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-

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

2008-10-09 Thread Bryce Harrington
I can confirm Aswarp's comment in comment #105. I have dom.event.contextmenu.enabled set to true (it seems to be on by default, as I also have never altered it), yet am still seeing the bug. This is sort of subjective, but it *seems* like I see it less often now than I used to. Possibly my finge

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

2008-10-10 Thread vbois
I am having the exact same issue on my synaptics touchpad laptop, on every version from 3.0 betas to 3.1a2 (current) running Windows Vista. This seems to be a platform-independent bug and nothing to do with Ubuntu, since I have also seen it on Windows XP. -- [MASTER] right click (with button rele

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

2008-10-10 Thread Jean-Philippe Fleury
I confirm this bug with Firefox 3.0.3 in Ubuntu 8.04.1. It doesn't happen only when I click right on a link, but anywhere I click right on the page or even on a tab. -- [MASTER] right click (with button release) might activate popup-menu-item https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/187313 You received th

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

2008-09-16 Thread Roman Polach
setting dom.event.contextmenu.enabled to true solves problem for me. -- [MASTER] right click (with button release) might activate popup-menu-item https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/187313 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. --

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

2008-09-17 Thread Roman Polach
I am taking it back. Now I see the problem again, it is only harder to appear with dom.event.contextmenu.enabled=true -- [MASTER] right click (with button release) might activate popup-menu-item https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/187313 You received this bug notification because you are a member of

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