Firefox ignores mouse input

[Jason Harvey]

Binary package hint: firefox

In firefox on ubuntu hardy, the interface occasionally ignores mouse clicks. Right clicking on a web page will not bring up context menus. Clicking on toolbar items will cause the toolbar to highly, but not to expand. Clicking on bookmark folders in the bookmark bar will cause the icon to highlight, but not expand. Clicking on text fields will not always cause them to come into focus. Right clicking in text boxes does not always bring up context menus.

Usually trying to perform the action multiple times will cause it to start working. Also switching tabs back and forth with cause it to start working.

When the context menus or bookmark folders highlight, but not expand, they usually stay highlighted for a few seconds, even after clicking on items in the browser.

I have experienced this problem on two different computers with hardy installed, both of them with the exact same symptoms. Both of those systems originally ran Feisty, with Firefox 3, without these problems. I have the "Normal" Visual Effects mode enabled; disabling visual effects does not resolve the problem. Both of the systems are using the nVidia proprietary drivers; disabling the proprietary drivers does not resolve the problem.

[Mahesh Asolkar (asolkar)]

I am seeing the same thing, but it is system wide. All menus/tooltips/gksu prompts show up, but they are behind all windows. That appears as if nothing happened. Jason, could you try to reduce the size of your firefox window and try opening bookmarks? Do you see them behind the window?

Here is a screenshot of what I have been seeing...

/Mahesh

[Jason Harvey (jason-alioth)]

Actually, I am unable to reproduce the problem when my firefox window isn't maximized. Whenever I resize the window the problem seems to go away.

[Jason Harvey (jason-alioth)]

I was able to get the problem to occur while the window wasn't maximized. It isn't appearing behind the window. Looks like it is a different issue than the one Mahesh is experiencing.

[Alexander Sack (asac)]

On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 02:22:50PM -0000, Jason Harvey wrote:
> I was able to get the problem to occur while the window wasn't
> maximized. It isn't appearing behind the window. Looks like it is a
> different issue than the one Mahesh is experiencing.
>

So, are you still able to use other applications while this happens?
or is the desktop completely frozen for some time?

Further, what extensions are you using? Maybe disabling any helps?

 status incomplete

 - Alexander

[Felipe Venegas (fvenegas)]

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to "New". Thanks again!