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I just updated Firefox to 2.something.  I’m using a trackpad on my PowerBook and I used to be able to hold down the button for a menu to appear that let me open a link in a new tab or window.  I think this is a right click on a regular mouse but I haven’t used anything but a trackpad in ages. This menu is no longer appearing!  I’m handicapped without it.  Anyone know what that’s about?  I searched around the preferences but I don’t see anything.

Did you try cmd + click?

I found the answer:

I use a Mac and want to open the context menu with click and hold
To change the behaviour of this function, do the following
Type about:config into the location bar and then find the entry for ui.click_hold_context_menus
and right click on the entry, and select Modify and enter true into the dialogue box. (This only works in Macs)
More details here http://kb.mozillazine.org/Ui.click_hold_context_menus

Of course, I can’t right click so I struggled with that a bit - it seems that just double clicking on the line toggles between true and false.

I also found that cmd+click would do it, which I never knew - thanks Lisa!

Searching through troubleshooting docs makes you grateful for all of the problems that you are NOT having 😊

Searching through troubleshooting docs makes you grateful for all of the problems that you are NOT having

I wonder if I can work that into my sig somehow. 😉

On a related note….

What about the typical mac textbox behavior that responds to an up-arrow or down-arrow keystroke by moving the cursor to the respective end of the textbox the user is typing in?  This was standard in Mac OS 9 (and its apps) and remains standard in OS X, but Firefox for Mac has never conformed with this standard. I couldn’t find it among the switches on about:config, either, but then, I’m not sure exactly where to look.  Does anybody know whether this behavior can be switched on, or why it was never included in the Mac version in the first place?