Right Click stops working randomly.

[Marco Carranza]

Randomly, right mouse stops working.
I have to restart firefox to use it again.
Distro: Ubuntu 12.04 64bits

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: firefox 13.0+build1-0ubuntu0.12.04.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-24.39-generic 3.2.16
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-24-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
AddonCompatCheckDisabled: False
AlsaVersion: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.24.
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu8
Architecture: amd64
ArecordDevices:
 **** List of CAPTURE Hardware Devices ****
 card 0: SB [HDA ATI SB], device 0: STAC92xx Analog [STAC92xx Analog]
   Subdevices: 1/1
   Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
AudioDevicesInUse:
 USER PID ACCESS COMMAND
 /dev/snd/controlC1: marco 2210 F.... pulseaudio
 /dev/snd/controlC0: marco 2210 F.... pulseaudio
 /dev/snd/pcmC0D0p: marco 2210 F...m pulseaudio
BuildID: 20120601175215
Card0.Amixer.info:
 Card hw:0 'SB'/'HDA ATI SB at 0xf0500000 irq 16'
   Mixer name : 'IDT 92HD81B1X5'
   Components : 'HDA:111d7605,103c1664,00100105'
   Controls : 16
   Simple ctrls : 9
Card1.Amixer.info:
 Card hw:1 'HDMI'/'HDA ATI HDMI at 0xf0410000 irq 19'
   Mixer name : 'ATI RS690/780 HDMI'
   Components : 'HDA:1002791a,00791a00,00100000'
   Controls : 4
   Simple ctrls : 1
Card1.Amixer.values:
 Simple mixer control 'IEC958',0
   Capabilities: pswitch pswitch-joined penum
   Playback channels: Mono
   Mono: Playback [on]
Channel: release
Date: Mon Jun 11 22:31:24 2012
ForcedLayersAccel: False
IfupdownConfig:
 auto lo
 iface lo inet loopback
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Beta amd64 (20120301)
IpRoute:
 default via 192.168.1.1 dev eth0 proto static
 169.254.0.0/16 dev eth0 scope link metric 1000
 192.168.1.0/24 dev eth0 proto kernel scope link src 192.168.1.104 metric 1
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=es_PE:es
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=es_PE.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
Profiles: Profile0 (Default) - LastVersion=13.0/20120601175215 (In use)
RelatedPackageVersions:
 google-talkplugin 2.9.10.0-1
 rhythmbox-mozilla 2.96-0ubuntu4
 totem-mozilla 3.0.1-0ubuntu21
RfKill:
 0: phy0: Wireless LAN
  Soft blocked: yes
  Hard blocked: no
RunningIncompatibleAddons: False
SourcePackage: firefox
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
dmi.bios.date: 04/26/2011
dmi.bios.vendor: Hewlett-Packard
dmi.bios.version: F.15
dmi.board.asset.tag: Base Board Asset Tag
dmi.board.name: 1664
dmi.board.vendor: Hewlett-Packard
dmi.board.version: 20.21
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: Hewlett-Packard
dmi.chassis.version: N/A
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnHewlett-Packard:bvrF.15:bd04/26/2011:svnHewlett-Packard:pnHPPaviliong7NotebookPC:pvr0593110000204610000620100:rvnHewlett-Packard:rn1664:rvr20.21:cvnHewlett-Packard:ct10:cvrN/A:
dmi.product.name: HP Pavilion g7 Notebook PC
dmi.product.version: 0593110000204610000620100
dmi.sys.vendor: Hewlett-Packard

[Anentropic (anentropic)]

I have the same problem... Firefox 13, Ubuntu 12.04LTS 32 bit

Same symptoms... right-click menus stop working (seemingly randomly) in FF, have to close FF and re-open it for them to start working again.

[xpxinvxpy (xpxinvxpy)]

Same problem. Firefox 13.01, 12.04LTS on a 64 bit lenovo laptop.

[iiss (shohami)]

Me too, except it's not random - ff13 doesn't allow right-click at all.

Whenever I right-click, the browser freezes for a few seconds, but I never get a context menu. It seems to recover from whatever it was trying to do, but doesn't give me the requested functionality.

Also - when trying to change default fonts, same thing (no font menu, just a short freeze).

Also - browser back button does not work. I would expect it to show a drop-down too, right? (list of previous pages).

I suspect something about FF13 trying to open a drop-down menu (not the sort you get on the location bar but pretty much everywhere else) is broken on my system.

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, FF13.0.1, amd64 architecture. Default Unity UI.

I've tried disabling all plugins and extensions, so it's none of those. I suspect something in the libs.

Any ideas?

[iiss (shohami)]

Fixed my own issue. The problem with FF was a symptom of a system problemw ith audio. When I ran strace on FF, it looked like it was timing out waiting for a socket it had opened to talk to pulse audio. I had pulse issues on my ubuntu machine.

Anyways, I found another suggestion about disabling esound in pulseaudio. That enabled pulseaudio to start, and then all the FF issues disappeared.

In my case, I got things working by commenting out these lines in /etc/pulse/default.pa:
## .ifexists module-esound-protocol-unix.so
## load-module module-esound-protocol-unix
## .endif
load-module module-native-protocol-unix

My suggestion to the FF team would be to "remember" that opening the audio subsystem failed and not try to do it again. That would make the first right-click or audio-linked action fail, but not subsequent attempts.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.