On 2010-10-02 21:50 PDT, Leonidas Jones wrote: > Nelson Bolyard <[email protected]> wrote: >> Ever hear of these symptoms? Know of any cures? >> >> SM2 (latest version as of about 2 months ago) on an Intel Mac Mini >> running Leopard is behaving VERY STRANGELY. Left clicks on buttons, >> menu items, and certain other UI features that ought to cause >> actions, often cause a pop-up menu to be displayed, in addition to >> whatever action they're supposed to take. If one is not careful to >> move the mouse out of the menu before releasing it, one ends up >> performing unintended actions, which may have very undesirable >> consequences.
>> This is a brand new OS/X install on a clean disk with SM2 and almost >> no extensions or plugins (quicktime, Adobe PDF reader). It has an >> Apple two-button "mighty mouse", and the buttons were configured >> properly (right mouse separate from left mouse, buttons not reversed) >> recently. She's being careful to left-click. >> >> Any ideas gratefully received. The problem is due to "slow clicks". With OS/X, if you take longer than about 1/2 second between pressing down and letting up the mouse button, you get this behavior where the left click actually behaves like a right click. It's a difference between OS/X and all older versions of OS (e.g. OS/9, OS/7). No programs on older MacOS have this problem. On older MacOS, you can hold down the mouse for a large part of a second, or more, and as long as you don't move the mouse before you let it up, it's just a click. I never do these "slow clicks", but my aged relative, who's been using OS/9 for most of the last decade, has been doing this all that time and thinks this is normal click behavior. Very difficult to unlearn after all that time. If I try to do slow clicks, then I see the same behavior she does. > Is this only happening in SeaMonkey? It affects the dock and most Apple programs, but not any Microsoft programs for Mac. Doesn't affect word or Excel, etc. Definitely affects SM. I wish I could get SM to act like the MS programs, and not treat slow clicks like right clicks. I'm also getting questions like "all my correspondents use Mac Mail, so why should I use SeaMonkey?" An answer like "because SeaMonkey doesn't have fits with slow clicks" would be just the ticket. Any ideas how to achieve that? _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
