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Fixes #15309

Summary of the issue:

In Edge browse mode, when opening the context menu, NVDA many times goes back to browse mode.

Description of user facing changes

NVDA will no correctly focus the context menu opened from Edge browse mode.

Description of development approach

The issue behind this is as follows. Take a link as example:

1. Disabling the option Automatically set system focus to focusable elements ensures that an object only gets focus when strictly necessary. This is the case when opening the context menu, because otherwise, the context menu would open for the wrong object.
2. When opening the context menu on the link, NVDA calls script_passThrough
3. script_passThrough calls setFocus on the link's object and sends the gesture.
4. Two focus events are fired, one for the link in the document and one for the context menu
5. NVDA first processes the context menu event and after that, the link object event
6. Focus bounces from the context menu back to the link.

There is a very trivial fix for this. With calling api.processPendingEvents, we ensure that NVDA first processes the event generated by setFocus before executing the gesture.

Testing strategy:

Tested the str from #15309

Known issues with pull request:

None known

Change log entries:

Bug fixes

• NVDA will no longer bounce back to the last browse mode position when opening the context menu in Microsoft Edge. (NVDA can't access context menus opened on some links/images in Edge, even when Narrator can #15309)

Code Review Checklist:

• Pull Request description:
  • description is up to date
  • change log entries
• Testing:
  • Unit tests
  • System (end to end) tests
  • Manual testing
• API is compatible with existing add-ons.
• Documentation:
  • User Documentation
  • Developer / Technical Documentation
  • Context sensitive help for GUI changes
• UX of all users considered:
  • Speech
  • Braille
  • Low Vision
  • Different web browsers
  • Localization in other languages / culture than English
• Security precautions taken.