Context menu for URLs is racy

[Andrew Bennetts]

Right-clicking on a URL in a terminal, but accidentally moving the mouse cursor off the URL before the context menu renders (it's easier than it sounds, at least on my hardware) produces a different context menu than if the cursor stays put. Specifically, the "Open Link" and "Copy Link Address" options are missing.

[Andrew Bennetts (spiv)]

It appears that the contents of the menu are determined more by where the mouse cursor is at rendering time than where it was when the right mouse button was clicked. So not only will "Copy Link Address" be missing if the cursor happens to move off the URL you clicked on, it will in fact be present, and copy the wrong URL into the clipboard, if you are unlucky enough to move the cursor over a different URL before the menu appears.

For some reason, I trip over this bug almost every day.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

I've forwarded your issue upstream: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=331683

[Thomas Folz-Donahue (eigenlambda)]

This bug is no longer reproducible in the current Intrepid beta.