Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9b3pre) Gecko/2008020304 Minefield/3.0b3pre Back/forward button drop menus no longer work properly -- instead of taking you back/forward to the selected item in history, it just goes back/forward one page. Example: In a tab go to slashdot.org, then digg.com, then hugg.com, then cnn.com. Click and hold the back button to get the history drop menu. Select "slashdot.org". Expected: navigate to slashdot.org. Actual: navigate to hugg.com Same behaviour for the forward button.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9b3pre) Gecko/2008020304 WFM, thus probably a Mac only issue do to click&hold being confused (maybe due to bug 414797 not being properly fixed?).

I only see this problem (on OS X) with the menu brought up by click&hold -- not with a menu raised by right-click or control-click. So I suppose you're right, Simon, that this is a click&hold issue. (I tested with today's nightly on OS X 10.5.)

Shouldn't the fix be within the Mac-specific code? (Checking event.target or something, I didn't really look into what's going on here.)

It does not hurt the default case, so I would rather not complex things even more.

Well, it hurts extensibility. It's an edge case, though. I can think of an extension not liking this, but that doesn't mean such an extension really exists or will exist.

mozilla/browser/base/content/browser.xul 1.429

This missing b3 makes b3 unusable for me. My only choice is to surf the nightlies I suppose. Seems like there could be b3 backlash. /be

Dao, Alex, anyone: I'm on the nightly update train, happy again, don't mean to be picky -- but the delay seems near a second to get the drop down. A bit too long? What does the Apple HIG say? /be

Sorr, Mano's bug and fix -- didn't mean to leave him out. My Mac one button life has schooled me implicitly on when to expect a different mode due to time passing by, and the delay to get the back history dropdown just seems a bit too long. /be

The delay is 500 ms, which does seem quite long. I've never used it, though, since it's Mac-only.

Should I file a bug on the overlong delay? /be

Yes, I think so.

Filed bug 417607. /be

Verified FIXED, modulo bug 417607, which Brendan filed (comment 17). Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.4; en-US; rv:1.9b4pre) Gecko/2008022104 Minefield/3.0b4pre