Bug#512263: iceweasel: right-click menu on images oftentimes chooses random option

[Mike Hommey]

Hi,

Sorry for the late answer.

This bug sounds weird and I'm never experienced something similar. Did
it eventually vanish ? Does it still happen in Iceweasel 3.5 ?

Cheers,

Mike

On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 02:12:31AM +0000, Noah Slater wrote:
> Package: iceweasel
> Version: 3.0.4-1
> Severity: normal
> 
> Every so often, about once out of ten times say, right-clicking on an image in
> Iceweasel will cause a seemlying random option to be chosen and activated. This
> tends to be "Properties", "Save", or "Block images.." (as well as a few others)
> more often then not. Undoing whatever action took place and re-right-clicking
> usually results in the standard menu being displayed.

On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 11:49:24AM +0100, Tomasz Miodek wrote:
> Package: iceweasel
> Version: 3.0.6-1
> Followup-For: Bug #512263
> 
> I want to confirm the bug as it is still active in 3.0.6 (Lenny, GNOME)
> It doesn't refer only to right click on images - right clicking anywhere in
> iceweasel produces sometimes such behaviour (random selecting of an option
> from context menu instead of showing this menu).
> I have noticed that this happens whenever I quickly click after some move.
> If I first move mouse, stop over a link/image/wherever I want to click, wait
> a moment (I'd call it accented stop) and only then click, the bug will not
> happen. Yet when I click just after moving to the link - I suffer from the
> bug.
> 
> I have also found information about same behaviour in Firefox under Ubuntu
> with GNOME (sorry, it's available only in Polish):
> 
> http://forum.ubucentrum.net/thread-315.html
> 
> It isn't actually solved, Logan said it happens much less often, but still
> happens.