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External URL links are not displayed on mouse click – no way to select the second link

See original GitHub issue

JabRef version

5.6 (latest release)

Operating system

GNU / Linux

Details on version and operating system

Linuxmint-20.1

Checked with the latest development build

I made a backup of my libraries before testing the latest development version.
I have tested the latest development version and the problem persists

Steps to reproduce the behaviour

When an entry has both DOI and URL, left-clicking and holding on the “link” icon in the entry list does not activate the drop-down menu. When the mouse button is released, the first Web link in the link list is activated immediately, and there is not way to select another link from the list that appears afterwards. This problem appeared in at least JabRef 5.5 and persist through the 5.7 into the latest commut (main branch, commit c38d18b “Fix notifications that overlap task bar (#8775)”).

To reproduce:

Start JabRef with the provided minimal library (from the provided doi-and-url.zip):

~/install/jabref/JabRef-5.7/bin/JabRef ~/doi-and-url.bib &

Left click the mouse on the “linked-chain” URL link icon. The drop-down list does not appear, contrary to what was expected:
Release the left mouse button. The first link is opened on a browser, and only then the drop-down list appears (but no selection is possible). doi-and-url.zip

Appendix

@Article{Azurmendi2002, author = {Hugo F. Azurmendi and C. Allen Bush}, journal = {Journal of the American Chemical Society}, title = {Tracking Alignment from the Moment of Inertia Tensor ({TRAMITE}) of Biomolecules in Neutral Dilute Liquid Crystal Solutions}, year = {2002}, month = {feb}, number = {11}, pages = {2426--2427}, volume = {124}, doi = {10.1021/ja017524z}, file = {:by-author/A/Azurmendi/2002_Azurmendi_2426.pdf:PDF}, keywords = {biophysics; inertia tensor; liquid crystals; PDB; molecule alignment; bioinformatics}, owner = {saulius}, publisher = {American Chemical Society ({ACS})}, timestamp = {2022.05.16}, url = {https://userpages.umbc.edu/~bush/glycogroup/papers/Hugo/jacs124_2426.pdf}, }