Spellcheck options don't pop up in keyboard-triggered context menu.

Bug #305251 reported by Adam Buchbinder
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Mozilla Firefox
Fix Released
Unknown
firefox-3.0 (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
Undecided
Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: firefox-3.0

The context menu on spellcheck-flagged words provides suggestions when right-clicked, but not when the right-click button on the keyboard (between right-Windows-key and right-Ctrl) is used. Other gtk apps (Tomboy, gedit) don't do this, nor does Thunderbird, so I believe that this is not a gtk+ problem.

To reproduce: Open a textarea in Firefox. Type a misspelled word. Right-click on it, and observe the spellchecking suggestions. Now close the popup menu and move the cursor over that word. Hit the right-click button on the keyboard (between right-Windows-key and right-Ctrl).

What should happen: The spellchecking suggestions should appear in the context menu.

What happens: The spellchecking suggestions do not appear in the context menu.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
Package: firefox 3.0.4+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.10.1
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 PATH=/home/username/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SourcePackage: firefox-3.0
Uname: Linux 2.6.27-7-generic i686

Tags: apport-bug
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Adam Buchbinder (adam-buchbinder) wrote :
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Thomas Kluyver (takluyver) wrote :

I can confirm that in Launchpad (using this text area into which I am now typing), but it behaves as it should in GMail's compose option. At a first guess, is this difference linked to rich text area (as in GMail) vs. plain text area (as here)?

Changed in firefox-3.0:
status: New → Confirmed
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Umang Varma (umang) wrote :

I've found the bug upstream (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=370436). It's pretty curious. When the context menu key is pressed on the line above the word, the menu is shown correctly.

Till then, don't forget to press (Arrow) Up before pressing the context menu key. ;)

Umang

Changed in firefox:
status: Unknown → Confirmed
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Adam Buchbinder (adam-buchbinder) wrote :

Ah, this was previously reported. How did I not see it? Darn. Marking this as a duplicate.

Changed in firefox:
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
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