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Right click in new version is a pain in the back (often opens NEW TAB)

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tbrocks9
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New TB is a pain in the ass The right click (on mac is 2 finger press on the mouse pad) often brings up the right manu but often jumps to the firkin open new tab and opens the message in a new firkin tab. There should be a way to disable tabbing completely -- or fix this issue. I have to often press this 5 times to finally get it right. My aim is usually "edit as new message".

New TB is a pain in the ass The right click (on mac is 2 finger press on the mouse pad) often brings up the right manu but often jumps to the firkin open new tab and opens the message in a new firkin tab. There should be a way to disable tabbing completely -- or fix this issue. I have to often press this 5 times to finally get it right. My aim is usually "edit as new message".

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Wayne Mery
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I'm not aware of Thunderbird issues reported in this area. Have you tested thunderbird in safe mode? 

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/safe-mode
tbrocks9
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Hi Wayne. It's not a bug. It's a poor design or maybe a small bug that shows up in the latest version. I never had this problem before. I righclick (2 finger click on mac) on a message and 9 out of 10 times the msg opens in a new tab b/c the first option is that and it just highlights and executes. pain in the ass.

Matt
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I am not aware of any changes to this at all in the current version.

Although I had no idea until now what two finger click was. It sounds like an accident waiting to happen. Particularly poor user interface design on the part of apple.

This site offers some option rather than trying to hit two fingers simultaneously on a pad. http://www.wikihow.com/Right-Click-on-a-Mac

Undoubtedly there are settings somewhere in OSX to allow a time delay on this two finger salute, other wise it would be unworkable as you describe.