Waterfox G4 v4.1.0 (latest) - Open Link in New Tab missing + cookies and auto-signing into sites problems

[Objectivite]

What happened?

Open Link in New Tab when right-clicking on a link, is now missing (was ever present until 4.0.8)

Also, going to websites like www.theguardian.com keeps asking to agree for Cookies, and a number of sites, including The Guardian, do not auto-sign in as they used to, I have to keep clicking the LOGIN button on those sites to be logged in. This did not happen in 4.0.8.

O.

Reproducible?

• [X] I have tested this on Firefox.

Version

G4

What platform are you seeing the problem on?

Windows

Relevant log output

No response

[MrAlex94]

Thanks for the report. I can reproduce this issue when choosing a non-default theme on Windows 11. Will try and get a fix out ASAP.

Can I just confirm your version of Windows?

Edit #1: @Objectivite It actually looks like I can't reproduce this, I misread the right click context menu. Here's what it looks like on Firefox Dynamic theme, Windows 11 with G4.1.0.

Plain text domain:

Link:

Do you have the same issue on both plain text domains and links? Can you consistently reproduce on a certain web page?

[Objectivite]

Thank You.

O.

[MrAlex94]

Thank You.

O.

I've made an edit to the reply above.

[Objectivite]

Just testing - do not reply to this

https://www.cnn.com

https://github.com/WaterfoxCo/Waterfox/issues/2657

O.

[Objectivite]

OK - this is very interesting, and much more specific than I thought originally.

It works normally on a link that is highlighted as a link.

However, when I noticed it I was in the comments section of an article in the Guardian newspaper. A user had put a link to a page on the Independent and in The Guardian comments page links are not clickable BUT if you highlight the whole link and right-click, Waterfox recognises that it is a link and gives you the menu. In 4.0.8 that menu includes Open in New Tab, but it does not in 4.1.0 (I verified that).

So it is a very very specific instance - in all other instances I do get the "Open in New Tab" on the right-click.

You can access the Guardian comment in question at this link -

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/apr/06/bucha-ukrainians-russian-military-donbas#comment-155775557

O.

[MrAlex94]

It's a very odd one, shows fine for me:

If you open up the browser console, do you see any error messages that might look relevant? I'd recommend right clicking a few times so any error message stands out.

[Objectivite]

Hi Alex,

What a strange one.

I went back to that comment, repeated the process and I had the same problem. Then, noticing that the top of the popup was right up the top edge of my screen I thought "I wonder if it is because I have the comment too far up the page and the popup is not able to fully develop". So I scrolled the page down a little bit to ensure that that Guardian comment was just below halfway, right-clicked and "Hey Presto" I now have the correct popup and Open Link in New Tab is showing.

Where it gets strange is that I then scrolled the page back up so that Guardian comment is near the top of the page and ..... it still works fine !

Without closing Waterfox I then opened a new tab, searched for that comment again, left it positioned near the top, right-clicked and ..... it still works.

Conclusion : after all these tests and given how hard it was for me to reproduce after the first instance I do not think you should waste any more time on this. If it happens again I will scroll down a little and it will work.

I am happy for you to close this incident. I'll monitor the cookies issue (second part of the incident) - if I still have problems I'll open a new case.

O.