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I have a black screen, a blue tooltip saying "Right-click" and nothing whatsoever happening when I right click.

Firefox 31.5.0

edit: is it really necessary to downvote for reporting a valid bug !?

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Sorry about that! We've only tested with Firefox 38. I'll see if I can install an older version and try to fix whatever bug you're hitting.

In the meantime, I'd be interested if Chrome or Firefox 38 works for you.

hi - i checked the logs. I presume it's the corporate network I'm in blocking the websocket stuff

WebSocket connection to 'wss://precursorapp.com/chsk?tab-id=883d69ff-1095-4eed-bf63-83d786d55db1&client-id=f71e3c9b-fd70-4710-8502-ada0c73f4760' failed: Error during WebSocket handshake: Unexpected response code: 200

Maybe you could add some better error handling into the GUI ?

Oh no! It's supposed to fall back to long-polling if it can't set up a WebSocket connection. Thanks for letting us know.

Any news? I still can't use it.

Sorry, I have the ajax fallback mostly working. Sharing cursors doesn't work, but syncing chat and changes to the canvas does.

I'm still trying to find a reliable way to catch the error that prevents the connection upgrade. Right now, the library I'm using thinks that it should just keep retrying the websocket connection. We're already maintaining our own fork of the library, but it's a tedious process to make and test changes.

A good practice is to do it the other way around: start with long-polling and switch over to WebSockets only once it's confirmed to work. Don't know which library you're using but I know some do this.

Chrome is doing nothing with my right clicks. I'm doing two-finger click on a Mac trackpad in case that matters in your debugging process.

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