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January 25, 2010

Minor Problem with Attachment Menus on IE

We've been made aware of a small problem with the new version that affects IE users. Note that the popup menu on attachments was changed in 6.5 so that it requires a right-click to activate (rather than being activated automatically by hovering the mouse over it).

The problem is that on IE, if you have an attachment down the page so that you have to scroll to see it, and right click on the attachment, you won't see the popup menu. It is actually there but in the wrong place - scroll back up to the top of the page and you'll see it there. Essentially IE is putting the menu in the right place, but ignoring the fact that the page is scrolled.

We'll get this fixed up for the next patch release, but just wanted to let people know now...

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Pancho

Related problem:

Right click on the mac version of FF and Safari normally brings up a contextual menu with useful options, such as "copy link location", "open link in new menu/tab", "bookmark link", etc.

Since the popup on attachments is now triggered by the right click, the other menu is no longer available.

Would it be possible to have a setting for which way the user wants the popup to appear (as a rollover like in 6.4, or as a right-click as in 6.5)?

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