On 10/11/11 11:06 PM, M wrote: > David E. Ross wrote: >> On 10/11/11 5:12 PM, MCBastos wrote: >>> Interviewed by CNN on 11/10/2011 19:26, Paul told the world: >>>> On Oct 11, 2:22 pm, "Paul B. Gallagher" >>>> <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>> David E. Ross wrote: >>>>>> Therefore, either what you want already exists; or else you have not >>>>>> described your problem clearly enough. >>>>> >>>>> Could he be referring to the Bookmark Manager, a separate beast? >>>>> >>>>> Paul B. Gallagher >>>> >>>> Thanks to both of you for your responses. >>>> >>>> I was talking about the bookmark bar which contains both single >>>> bookmarks and folders of bookmarks, like this: >>>> >>>> [img]http://www.lutherie.net/bookmark.bar.jpg[/img] >>>> >>>> Even from the folder at the far left called "Bookmarks," you can go >>>> down it and into any of the same folders that are in the bar and still >>>> cannot right-click on any of those links to bring up a contextual menu >>>> of what to do with it. >>>> >>>> The only ones that "right click" works on are single bookmarks that >>>> are not in folders, such as Spamarrest, Google, eBay, YouTube and >>>> Wikipedia. >>>> >>>> Anything in a folder (such as Websites, Mandolin, Stuff, House, >>>> Computer etc.) is only available with a mouse-and-keyboard maneuver. >>>> >>> >>> I think this must be a Mac-specific issue. In my Windoze box, with >>> latest SM release (2.4.1), I can right-click on any bookmark, anywhere >>> (including in the "separate beast" of the Bookmark Manager), and I get a >>> local menu with both "open in a new window" and "open in a new tab." >>> >> >> The original message in this thread was indeed by someone using a Mac. >> >> Did I miss something? The original question (and the subject) refer to >> right-click. I though Macs had only a single-button mouse. It's been >> quite a while since I actually saw a Mac. Do they now have two-button >> or even three-button mice? >> > > Yes it is possible to configure a Mac mouse to be able to 'right click' and > yes it has a three button option. > > Right clicking within Bookmarks Manager works but not when accessing the > bookmarks from the browser menu. > > M
That might be a Mac problem or merely a problem with the way the mouse is configured. On my PC with Windows XP, right-click works as requested in the original message in this thread, both from the menu bar and in the Bookmarks Manager. -- David E. Ross <http://www.rossde.com/>. Anyone who thinks government owns a monopoly on inefficient, obstructive bureaucracy has obviously never worked for a large corporation. © 1997 by David E. Ross _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
