Comment 7 for bug 238733

the bug has not been deleted, it's still available but closed. what you describe is not a bug but a design decision, one is not better than the other one they are just different, the current approch allow to quickly use the menu and select and item using one click for example, the firefox issues your describe are bugs in the software and not really due to GTK

changing the way menu works under GNOME would be not trivial, confuse users and is not something which should be done in an ubuntu specific way, you should really take this discussion upstream or on a mailing list rather than on the bug tracker, nobody will come here to contribute to the discussion, the bug tracker is to describe bugs and work on those not to discuss designs

the bug could be sent upstream but if would require somebody wanting to argue in favor of the change, I'm not convinced about the idea and I've already too much to do so I'm not going to start this discussion, maybe somebody else is wanting to do that though