Annoying context menu on click

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Scott Heath - 09 Oct 2003 15:59 GMT

Is there a way to set Mozilla to stop opening the context menu if you click
the mouse too slowly? All my other OSX apps conform to the standard
cmd-click for a context menu, but Mozilla (1.4) insists on opening a context
menu (modal, BTW) whenever my fast-twitch muscles are not up to snuff. I
can't find a preference for it...

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Jerry Talkington - 09 Oct 2003 16:57 GMT

> Is there a way to set Mozilla to stop opening the context menu if you click
> the mouse too slowly? All my other OSX apps conform to the standard
> cmd-click for a context menu, but Mozilla (1.4) insists on opening a context
> menu (modal, BTW) whenever my fast-twitch muscles are not up to snuff. I
> can't find a preference for it...

This annoys me to no end, especially when you have more than one mouse
button. However, for web browsers it seems that the menus are a bit
different for web browsers:
command-click to open a link in a new window
control-click for a context menu
option-click to download link to disk
shift-click does nothing. I nominate that for open in new tab.

This gets really annoying when the menu pops up while selecting from a
form's <select>. You have to select "View Page Info" just to get rid of
it.

File a bug on this and post the number so we can vote, or let me know
and I will.

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Torben - 09 Oct 2003 17:35 GMT

> > Is there a way to set Mozilla to stop opening the context menu if you click
> > the mouse too slowly? All my other OSX apps conform to the standard
> > cmd-click for a context menu, but Mozilla (1.4) insists on opening a context
> > menu (modal, BTW) whenever my fast-twitch muscles are not up to snuff. I
> > can't find a preference for it...

> File a bug on this and post the number so we can vote, or let me know
> and I will.

Filed ages ago:
<URL:http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=107433 >

The only work around AFAIK isto use Camino where this is not implented
yet
<URL:http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=159224>

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Jerry Talkington - 09 Oct 2003 17:59 GMT

> > > Is there a way to set Mozilla to stop opening the context menu if you click
> > > the mouse too slowly? All my other OSX apps conform to the standard
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> Filed ages ago:
> <URL:http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=107433 >

I encourage everyone to vote for this bug.

> The only work around AFAIK isto use Camino where this is not implented
> yet
> <URL:http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=159224>

Ugh. Too bad there isn't a way to vote no for a bug...

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Scott Heath - 09 Oct 2003 20:56 GMT

Thanks for the info. This is bad news. I'm joining Bugzilla just so I can
vote on this. Moz 1.4 with Pinstripe is (for me) the best OSX browser
around, but this 'feature' (really a holdover from before the Mac knew how
to do a context menu) really is a pain.

On 10/09/2003 10:59 AM, in article
mailman.1065719109.12596.mozilla-macosx@mozilla.org, "Jerry Talkington"
<jtalkington@users.sourceforge.net> wrote:

>>>> Is there a way to set Mozilla to stop opening the context menu if you click
>>>> the mouse too slowly? All my other OSX apps conform to the standard
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>
> Ugh. Too bad there isn't a way to vote no for a bug...

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Rufus - 11 Oct 2003 22:32 GMT

> Is there a way to set Mozilla to stop opening the context menu if you click
> the mouse too slowly? All my other OSX apps conform to the standard
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>
> Scott Heath

This only happens to me when I click and hold, and I've never noticed it
to be annoying. One thing you might try is adjusting the Preferences
for your mouse/trackball/whatever (I use a Kensington USB Turbo Mouse,
one button is also set for cmd+click as a "right click") - the Double
Click and/or Click speed until you can get a balance you can live with.

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