Closed Bug 37804 Opened 25 years ago Closed 25 years ago

Cmd-click should bring up context menu on Macs

Categories

(Core :: XUL, enhancement, P3)

PowerPC
All
enhancement

Tracking

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VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 18726

People

(Reporter: mech, Assigned: german)

Details

Related to bugs 18726, 31775, 30089 (in part). IE, and (I think) Netscape Navigator/Communicator have long supported Cmd-Click as well as Ctrl-Click to pop up contextual menus. I personally depend on this a lot, because I have a Kinesis split ergnomic keyboard, and an Alps Glidepoint trackpad in the middle. On this keyboard, the Ctrl key is directly below where my wrist is when using the trackpad, making Ctrl-Click rather a pain in the butt to pull off. (If Netscape doesn't do this, too, it should in my opinion. I've only been using IE for about the last year and half because its faster and more stable on my s
Minor clarification: By Cmd-Click, I mean Cmd-Click-and-hold. Cmd-Click-and-release shouldn't do anything except on a link (in which case it should open it in a new window. This is not happening yet as of M15 or M16
4.x does not do cmd-click, nor does any mac app i know of. i understand, though, as i have the same kinesis keyboard. UE?
Assignee: pinkerton → german
ok, cmd-click-hold is no different than click and hold, therefore this bug is just a dupe of the click-hold bug. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 18726 ***
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 25 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
Sorry, I should have been more specific. IE (and Netscape I think) support Cmd-Click *on items* like links or images, to get context-specific menus ("Copy this image", "Add link to favorites", etc.) Yes, it doesn't work if you just Cmd-click on whitespace or something. You do have to use Ctrl-Click for that. Anyway, the point being that it'd be very very very nice to have this IE (and NS?) functionality in Mozilla. This is distinct from the Cmd-Click-release action on any linked item, which loads it in a new window. PS: I'm not sure what you mean by Cmd-Click-hold is the same as Click-hold (I'm not a big fan of Click-hold myself, since you have to wait a second or so, and Cmd-Click-hold, like Ctrl-Click-hold (or Ctrl-Click-release? Not sure I don't use the Ctrl key and the mouse at the same time very much!) is instant, or should be. I guess you mean it's the "same" in the sense of the difficulty of building the functionality in? Anyway, I'm not meaning to go on and on about this, just wanted to be more clear/specific. PPS: "UE?" didn't compute. :) If it's a reference to a RSI, mine's just tendonitis, very pre-CTS, but irritating nonetheless, making the keyboard m
verif.
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
OS: All
Component: XP Toolkit/Widgets: Menus → XUL
QA Contact: bugzilla → xptoolkit.widgets
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