Bugzilla – Bug 410042
Sporadic/random right-click menu behavior (mainly Firefox)
Last modified: 2010-11-02 14:00:37 UTC
Appears to be a common issue as confirmed by several users in the forums: Attempts to right-click to bring up the menu will frequently result in Firefox seemingly randomly picking something off of the menu and applying it rather than simply displaying the menu; sometimes opening a link in a tab, sometimes opening in a new window, sometimes starting an email entry, etc.
To update, this has now been reported in the forums as also present on 10.3 systems that have updated to FF3, so may be something specifically with FF3 rather than the 11.0 packaging specifically.
I had this problem in 11.0 after upgrade to Firefox 3, and I still have it in 11.1 with Firefox 3. My current plugins are adblock plus, flashblock, Tab Mix Plus, cookie Culler, User Agent Switcher and Tab Preview.
I also experience this in openSUSE 11.1 x86-64. It's been going on since I first installed 11.1, and the behaviour hasn't changed with any of the updates. I currently have all updates installed (newest kernel, Firefox 3.0.6, etc). I only use official openSUSE repo packages. I never experienced it in openSUSE 11.0.
This issue is bugging me since 2007! I had the same problem with PCLinuxOS 2007, openSUSE 11.0 and now openSUSE 11.1. This is definitely not a Firefox-only issue, see also http://forums.opensuse.org/applications/388116-11-0-firefox-3-right-click-menu-issues.html It happens to me with all applications (it's just worst with Firefox, of course). I really think this is a Xorg issue/bug! (mainly with KDE(?); PS/2 mouses(?)) The right-click menu sometimes seems to be too near by the mouse pointer, depending on the screen position. The bug only occurs if you do right-clicks at specific screen positions, mainly at the bottom-right corner (in the area(s) where the menu is 50:50 to be right-'above' or right-'below' the mouse pointer on a right click; => menu direction switching point). Then, an option (the nearest one reached) is selected and clicked (right click) at once. What is clicked depends on how the menu is shown, above or below the pointer.
Note that I also had the 'crazy mouse' bug on PCLinuxOS 2007, see http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:X_Server_Configuration_with_SaX2_(8.1_or_Higher)#Known_Problems_and_Their_Solutions ... maybe this is/was related (PS/2 issue?)? ... although not having that problem with openSUSE so far. ---- Changing component to X.Org, as this isn't a Firefox bug for sure! Is there a way to configure the X11/X.Org menu behaviour? Distance from mouse pointer e.g.?
Same on Ubuntu: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox-3.0/+bug/187313
I was using a PS/2 mouse when I initially had the problem, but I also have the same problem after switching it out with a USB mouse. I had no issues with Firefox under openSUSE 11.0 until I upgraded to Firefox 3, and I have had not had the problem in any applications other than Firefox 3 under openSUSE 11.1.
The link to the Ubuntu bug given by Wiki Melancholie says that the bug will be fixed in Firefox 3.0.11, and the workaround in the meantime is to hold the right button down until the menu appears. I have confirmed this works with FF 3.0.9 under openSUSE 11.1 with my PS/2 trackball.
So apparently it's a Firefox 3 issue. Reassigning.
For Firefox the upstream report is https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=404314 This confirms that 3.5b4 (as in Factory) and 3.0.11 (when it gets released) for older distributions will have that bug fixed. So is this report about Firefox only? Then I'm going to change the component and close it once 3.0.11 is released.
Yes, that's for Firefox only. Sorry, I didn't see that we have a seperate Firefox component.
Hmm, does someone know why this behaviour (see comment #5) also occured in Konqueror for me sometimes (at least for v3; so, not having noticed that with my fresh 11.1 install yet, maybe because of different screen resolution/KDE v4). Will have an eye on this... But nice to know that in less than a month this will be past for Firefox, where it definitely was most annoying, although less harmful actually ;-)
This was closed long time ago.