From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.77 [en] (Win98; U) BuildID: 2001101117 Pressing the right mouse button doesn't show the context menu until the button is released, so you can't use the context menu with release-to-select. (eg. right click, drag to "view page source" then release to activate). This is inconsistent with the linux version or 4.x Netscapes (which right-click-hold does work), and also inconsistent with the menus where left-click-hold & drag works as expected. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Open Mozilla 2. Right click anywhere the main browser window but don't release the button Actual Results: Nothing happens Expected Results: The context menu should appear the instant the button is depressed This does not affect the linux build of 0.9.5, only win32. Changing themes made no difference. btw the linux Mozilla seems to take a little time for the context menu to appear with right-click-hold. I don't know if this is intentional, but it should be appear as "instantly" as possible. (it is instant in 4.7x)

I think this is deliberate. It may be inconsistent with linux/4.x, but a quick survey of other windows apps reveals that it IS consistent with the rest of windows.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 89308 ***

It may be consistent with the rest of windows, but that doesn't mean it's the best thing to do. (this is Windows, remember? :) The main reason I think click-drag-release is a "good thing" (besides consistency with left-click menus) is that it reduces strain on your hand. It's one less depress-release, and when you use a mouse as much as me that actually makes a difference. Every little bit counts. btw, apologies for the dupe. Keywords searches aren't perfect :-/