Comment 317 for bug 187313

Patrick Roberts:
>2) Because in Linux a context menu is shown when PRESSING
> the secundairy mouse button, instead of when RELEASING
> the secundairy mouse button.

FWIW, this generalized GTK issue has already been noted above. (Searching this bug for "nautilus" will give you the relevant comments.) If you're interested in specifically working around it in Firefox (but not other apps), the "Mouse Gestures" addon can help, as documented in earlier comments.

> Doing a secundairy click in some white space in Nautilus
> often leads to the creation of new directories.
> Please, change this behavior to show the context menu
> when the mouse button is released or at least give us
> the option to change this behavior.

Um... Why are you posting this request here?

If you want an aspect of Gnome behavior made to be customizable, you won't get very far by posting your request on an already-fixed (and already-unmanageably-long) Firefox bug page (in Ubuntu's bug tracker). This has literally zero chance of getting your issue addressed.

You might have more luck if you bring up this topic in a Gnome developer IRC channel, forum, or mailing list. Or, you could file a bug at http://bugzilla.gnome.org. But posting about it here is not going to help.

(Please no more comments on this bug -- if we hit 300, I think I'm going to cry.)