On Mon, 18 Apr 2011 09:44:58 -0700 (PDT), go-arts wrote: > Mac OS X: > Till now I found Seamonkey - Mozilla very efficient. I do not use > Firefiox because you are obliged to use control-key for opening the > mouse-click-pop-up-menu (mouse-click-pop-up-menu: you keep the left > mouse-button pressed anywhere on a location like links until the menu > opens. You can do this in Seamonkey with one hand like you could do > since more than ten years in Netscape, Mozilla etc. and work with one > hand only. Very efficient!). > > I could so choose "open the link in tab" or "open the link in new > window" by only movin to the line and releasing the mouse-button. > Now, since Version 2.1, I am forced to click again on the line in the > mouse-click-menu which forces me do do the double of clicks than > before. > My arm is already suffering by these inefficient reflexes. > > Is there any means to get back the old quick and efficient feature? > > P.S.: I DO NOT appreciate to change such features without asking the > users oder installing the old alternative! This concerns many people > who are depending on their work-flow every day in thousands of > movements and clicks! > I bought the Kensington track-balls to be protected against problems. > Now Seamonkey 2.1 brings me these problems back! > > Greetings
<http://kb.mozillazine.org/Ui.click_hold_context_menus#Background> Quote: "On the Macintosh, many users do not use a two-button mouse. In the mid-’90s, Netscape started using the convention of “click-and-hold” to provide access to the context menu. Later, Apple standardized Control-Click as the way to access context menus. For backwards compatibility, Mozilla still supports “click-and-hold.” This preference determines whether or not the context menu will be shown when clicking and holding down the primary mouse button on a Macintosh. Possible values and their effects" The old Mozilla Suite and SeaMonkey until 1.1 used click-to-hold on OSX platforms. In the meantime Apple had standardized on CTRL-CLICK. All (or most) third party applications followed by dropping support for click-to-hold. By the time SeaMonkey 2.0 was in development the Suite was the only major application that still defaulted to click-to-hold. Whole new generations of Mac users had grown up not knowing about click-to-hold. I think we made the decision to go with the flow because the current generation of Mac users had never known the OS9 click-to-hold method. It's only dinosaurs like you and me who remember differently. Phil (And yes we have always been at war with Eastasia) -- Philip Chee <phi...@aleytys.pc.my>, <philip.c...@gmail.com> http://flashblock.mozdev.org/ http://xsidebar.mozdev.org Guard us from the she-wolf and the wolf, and guard us from the thief, oh Night, and so be good for us to pass. _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
