I don’t know if you ever noticed that if you held the button of your mouse (on a Mac) within a webpage for a few seconds, it would activate the context menu.

This was a bit annoying… Especially if you were trying to copy some text, and before you started dragging your cursor to highlight the text you paused for a few seconds, then the menu would come up.

This behavior was common on previous Firefox versions, but not anymore. =)

I haven’t seen any comments about this, but I think it is a great usability improvement. Now, to get the context menu, you have to do the usual… <ctrl + *click*>.

Update: No doubt: Beauty is in the eye of the beholder… Some people really hated the idea of losing such ‘feature’.

Update: Well, I guess it is a configurable option. Enter about:config in your address bar, and search for ui.click_hold_context_menus, then set it to ‘true’ (or ‘false’) by double clicking on the property… and voila!

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