Contextual menu (right/ctrl-click) delayed in Lion

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  1. star-affinity, Jul 20, 2011

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    Since upgrading to Lion on my MacBook Pro I notice the time it takes to bring up the contextual menu (the one that comes up when right/ctrl-clicking and ”two finger tapping” on the trackpad) is a little delayed in Lion. It's not by very much, but still very noticeable (especially in Safari I think) and it now feels more like how it is in Windows which in this case isn't a good thing. :(

    Not a big issue one might say, but in the long run time adds up.
    In Snow Leopard it was more or less instant for me.

    Anyone else noticed this?
     
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  2. iHateMacs, Jul 20, 2011

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    It's because it's waiting to see if you are double two finger tapping. If you disable the double two finger tapping then it will be instant as before.
     
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  3. aresinferno, Jul 20, 2011

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    EDIT: Turn Smart Zoom off and it will be instant.
     
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  4. star-affinity, Jul 20, 2011

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    Thanks guys!
    Disabling ”Smart zoom” in the Trackpad preferences did the trick.

    While I can see that Smart zoom is a nice feature in some cases I don't think I'll use it that often so I'd rather have a snappy contextual menu – at least that's how I feel about it now. :)
     
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  5. millerrh, Jul 24, 2011

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    Glad I found this, this was bugging me too. I use right click way more than I'll ever use smart zoom. Bye bye smart zoom, too bad Apple had to make compromises including you.
     
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  6. cgm707, Aug 9, 2011

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    Right-click not working

    Right-clicking on the trackpad is not working for me. I disabled Smart Zoom, and every time I click the Secondary Click option under System Preferences/Trackpad, this box somehow gets unchecked!

     
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