When I long press a link, in addition to opening a context box, it also opens the link in that window. How can I get JUST the context window to appear?
I am an avid Pocket user and I like to scroll through various blog sites while saving articles to read later. Typically, I have been using Google Chrome browser which requires me to open each article in a different tab and then share that article to Pocket in order to save it. I was ecstatic when I found out the firefox browser worked very well and even supported add ons. I decided to try it but have run into a major issue. When I long press a link in order to share it, instead of a context window appearing and the website staying the same, a context window opens while the website loads the link. When I right click on a link in my browser, it doesn't mean I want to go to that link so I'm not sure why the same procedure would cause the mobile browser to do so. Is there a way I can long press a link without opening the link in that tab?
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Okay, this is silly, but it's the best I could come up with:
I tested on Gizmodo: when the long press menu appears, instead of lifting your finger straight up, slide it down a bit, just off the link, before lifting your finger off the glass. Then the script in the page does not detect a "mouse up" (or equivalent event) on the link. Does that work for you?
I realize you can't actually see the link through the menu, but one or two lines of text height usually will do it.
Probably would make sense for Firefox to cancel all events associated with touching the link once the menu is displayed. Or to make sure the site understands it as a right-click (that seems harder). I haven't checked to see whether any ideas along these lines have been filed in the bug tracking system.
Edit: Tested on a Nexus 5 (LG).
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Long pressing until the context menu appears should not load the link in the same tab, I agree, and on mine it works as expected. I'm not sure why yours is working differently. Maybe this happens with some links (e.g., with scripts attached) and not others and I'm not testing the right links. Have you noticed any pattern with problems on particular sites but not others?
I should have tested that. Indeed, it only seems to have this effect on particular websites (of course, ones I often visit). I am having this issue on Gawker media blogs io9.com , gizmodo.com , lifehacker.com , gawker.com , etc. I have a Samsung Galaxy Note 3. Do links on these sites cause the same issue on other devices as well? I'm not sure if it is a script in the page causing a problem or not.
الحل المُختار
Okay, this is silly, but it's the best I could come up with:
I tested on Gizmodo: when the long press menu appears, instead of lifting your finger straight up, slide it down a bit, just off the link, before lifting your finger off the glass. Then the script in the page does not detect a "mouse up" (or equivalent event) on the link. Does that work for you?
I realize you can't actually see the link through the menu, but one or two lines of text height usually will do it.
Probably would make sense for Firefox to cancel all events associated with touching the link once the menu is displayed. Or to make sure the site understands it as a right-click (that seems harder). I haven't checked to see whether any ideas along these lines have been filed in the bug tracking system.
Edit: Tested on a Nexus 5 (LG).
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Funny enough that seems to work. I appreciate your help!
Hi, I've the same problem. I can confirm that it depends on the site you have to visit. For exemple the mobile version of www.mangaforever.net has this behaviour...i long press on a link, the windows popup appears but the page always opens in background althouth i dont pressed anything yet. So the result is a page loaded and the same page open in the new tab. Thanks and sorry for my bad english