Mouse acts as if clicked when moving across browser windows

[Don Quixote de la Mancha]

I have seen this in 10.10 as of 2010-09-07 as well as 10.04.

In both Firefox and Chrome, when moving the mouse - unclicked - across the window, sometimes a selection is highlighted as if I had click-dragged.

Sometimes links get clicked as I pass the mouse across them, and sometimes tabs are erroneously closed.

This is with a first-generation early 2006 Core Duo (not Core 2 Duo) MacBook Pro, Model Identifier MacBookPro1,1.

There are so many input bugs in the browsers that I find Ubuntu completely unusable.

[Don Quixote de la Mancha (quixote-dulcineatech)]

This also happens in Document Viewer 2.31.90

[Jason J. Herne (hernejj)]

Hi Michael,

Do you happen to be using the touch pad on your laptop? If so... many touch pads interpret a rapid double tap as a mouse click and hold. If you happen to be accidentally double tapping on the touch pad just before you move the cursor to the edge of the screen that would explain the behavior you are seeing.

If this is what is happening to you then you can control this behavior here: System -> Preferences -> Mouse -> Touchpad.
Under the Touchpad tab there are several options, one of which is "Enable mouse clicks with touchpad".

If you are not sure about this... you might try un-checking "Enable mouse clicks with touchpad" to see if the problem goes away.

[Leo Arias (elopio)]

We'd like to figure out what's causing this bug for you, but we haven't heard back from you in a while. Could you please provide the requested information? Thanks!

[Leo Arias (elopio)]

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!