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<blockquote data-quote="remain" data-source="post: 393327" data-attributes="member: 23182"><p>Well.......... I wouldn't use the term "fault" but technically speaking, it's <strong>because</strong> of Apple and how Mac OS X's menus work.</p><p></p><p>Mac OS X's Menu Bar's menus' items have the same effect to any type of click (left-click, right-click, and middle-click).</p><p>Furthermore, they never allow a context menu of an item in a menu, i.e., the menu of a menu, so to speak.</p><p></p><p>Other than the menu bar, all menus in Firefox are non-native menus, meaning Firefox can make menus that have a slightly different behavior. (You might notice that clicking on a menu separator or an inactive menu item in a Firefox context menu does not make the menu disappear, as it would with a Menu Bar menu.)</p><p></p><p>That's why you can middle-click Firefox menu items for a different effect. </p><p></p><p>As for why right-clicking menu items doesn't bring up a context menu, it's probably because the Firefox developers chose to respect how menus work in Mac OS X, i.e., no context menus for menu items. (even though they already 'bended' the rules with the different effect of the middle-click)</p><p></p><p>But once again, it's really nobody's "fault." It's just the way Mac OS X was made, which in a manner determines how Firefox for Mac behaves.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="remain, post: 393327, member: 23182"] Well.......... I wouldn't use the term "fault" but technically speaking, it's [B]because[/B] of Apple and how Mac OS X's menus work. Mac OS X's Menu Bar's menus' items have the same effect to any type of click (left-click, right-click, and middle-click). Furthermore, they never allow a context menu of an item in a menu, i.e., the menu of a menu, so to speak. Other than the menu bar, all menus in Firefox are non-native menus, meaning Firefox can make menus that have a slightly different behavior. (You might notice that clicking on a menu separator or an inactive menu item in a Firefox context menu does not make the menu disappear, as it would with a Menu Bar menu.) That's why you can middle-click Firefox menu items for a different effect. As for why right-clicking menu items doesn't bring up a context menu, it's probably because the Firefox developers chose to respect how menus work in Mac OS X, i.e., no context menus for menu items. (even though they already 'bended' the rules with the different effect of the middle-click) But once again, it's really nobody's "fault." It's just the way Mac OS X was made, which in a manner determines how Firefox for Mac behaves. [/QUOTE]
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