Ui.click hold context menusFrom MozillaZine Knowledge Base
[edit] BackgroundOn the Macintosh, many users do not use a two-button mouse. In the mid-’90s, Netscape started using the convention of “click-and-hold†to provide access to the context menu. Later, Apple standardized Control-Click as the way to access context menus. For backwards compatibility, Mozilla still supports “click-and-hold.†This preference determines whether or not the context menu will be shown when clicking and holding down the primary mouse button on a Macintosh. [edit] Possible values and their effects[edit] TrueHolding down the primary mouse button will show the context menu.
[edit] False“Click-and-hold†does nothing; Control-Click is the only way to show the context menu.
Note: On Gecko 1.8.0 (Firefox 1.5 etc) this is hard coded to TRUE on OS X and FALSE on all other platforms. The preference did not exist then and if manually created has no effect. [edit] First checked in[edit] Has an effect in
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