ctrl+click does not open context menu in firefox on mac

[maribethb]

ctrl+click does not open context menu in firefox on mac

[maribethb]

confirmed this is a firefox bug with this fiddle i found on the internet: https://jsfiddle.net/y8ot42pa/

ctrl+click in chrome yields pointerdown, ctrl+click in firefox does not (it does give a mousedown though)

[mark-friedman]

Note that while ctrl+click in firefox on Mac doesn't generate a "pointerdown" event it does generate a "contextmenu" browser event (as does on Chrome). Consequently, I wonder if maybe Blockly should consider using the "contextmenu" browser event for context menu triggering rather than the "pointerdown" event. I think that that might also simplify Blockly's browser event handling a bit.

I am amazed that no one in the last 6 years or so has noticed this while using Blockly with Firefox on a Mac laptop!

[maribethb]

This probably wasn't happening until we switched to pointer events, so not a full 6 years. But 2.

We'd be happy to accept a PR for that idea, Mark, but are unlikely to be able to prioritize a fix for this ourselves in the near future. As long as @BeksOmega says this is not going to collide with her current gesture work.

[BeksOmega]

I think this might be a blocker for App Inventor @mark-friedman does any of the info Maribeth found change prioritization?

[mark-friedman]

I think this might be a blocker for App Inventor @mark-friedman does any of the info Maribeth found change prioritization?

@ewpatton Is doing some information gathering about this.

[mark-friedman]

From @ewpatton: "I say it's probably not a show stopper but it is annoying that the current Blockly version we use in production doesn't have the problem. So it is a regression in that sense."