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1. Open the context menu.
2. Move the mouse cursor away from the context menu, but not outside the Edge window.
3. Select any item of the context menu using the arrows on the keyboard.
4. Move the mouse cursor literally 1-2 pixels.
The selection made with the arrow keys on the keyboard will disappear. If you are left-handed, this is very annoying!
Compare this behavior to the behavior of context menus in Windows and any other software. For example, in Firefox, the selection made using the arrows on the keyboard does not disappear. This stupid and annoying behavior is only present in Chromium.
Now try clicking with the right mouse button in the title bar of the web browser. A native context menu will appear. Select any item in this context menu using the keyboard arrows, and then move the mouse cursor inside the window. The selection will not disappear!
Vlad_Koon OH, that actually makes a lot more sense. I was thinking that when you were moving the mouse cursor inside the context menu, that you were complaining about the item under the mouse cursor taking precedence. I'll see what the engineers think about that.
Vlad_Koon it's mixed. Somebody brought up the point that the current implementation is actually simpler and therefore less prone to bugs, and since it was something we inherited from Chromium, we will most likely continue to do whatever they decide since diverging our behavior also adds more complexity and room for errors.
But this behavior is contrary to the behavior of Windows context menus and other software (Firefox for example)! In Chrome under macOS, there are no such problems either. This behavior is very annoying! Maybe you should try to push a fix for this behavior to Chromium?
And please take a look at this bug that was caused by your team: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=1127561
Vlad_Koon Sorry, I'm still not sure what the difference is between what you expect to happen and what actually happens. What is page scrolling and what is normal scrolling?
I'm talking about this empty area of the scrollbar:
Finally! This idiotic, meaningless behavior is only present in Chromium and many web browsers based on it. Windows, macOS and Linux context menus don't have this silly and meaningless behavior. In addition, I first saw such stupid behavior only in Chrome/Chromium. No other software has such a problem with context menus! Apart from annoyance, this behavior no longer evokes any emotion
PLEASE fix this not only for your Edge, but for the entire Chromium. This will be a gift for all left-handers!