context menu closes on mouse over

[AJenbo]

Binary package hint: firefox

Some times the context menu will close as soon the mouse is moved over them. I'm not sure this is limited to firefox, but it is were i have noticed it the most.
I have only see this problem in Natty, it might be related to unity.
I haven't found a good way to always replicate the issue.

[Sebastian Mitterle (mathume)]

My workaround is to minimize and restore the window. Then it works again.

[Sebastian Mitterle (mathume)]

It's really hard to reproduce. I tried. Sometimes I succeed sometimes not. I change between virtual desktops in unity and activate several applications on other v-desktops than where I have firefox. Then sometimes the described behaviour is reproduceable. Might be important to notice that firefox is maximised.

[Dealyjustins (dealyjustins)]

I'm using fedora 14 and firefox 4.0 and have the same problem. Mathume's workaround works for me as well.

So, it's not a problem with natty or unity.

[cuc (cuc+)]

same here, unity+ff4 but also in miramar 3.3 (tbird alpha)

[cuc (cuc+)]

it also happens with the bookmark toolbar in ff4

[Serg Alexv (agel)]

FF5 on natty - the same problem.

[Alexey Baskinov (alexey-baskinov)]

With me Firefox (version 5.0, Natty Narwhal) is maximized also. The bookmark pane menus behave the same way. They (menus) started working normally after I turned on and off the «Context Search» add-on without restarting the browser.

[Alexey Baskinov (alexey-baskinov)]

Looks like the add-on has nothing to do with the issue. This time the bug stopped reoccurring after I opened the add-on tab. Maybe merely opening the settings interface will be enough next time.

[Alexey Baskinov (alexey-baskinov)]

This might be a duplicate of 796897. Moving to an adjacent workplace does cause the bug to occur sometimes. As for a workaround — the simplest I've found so far is clicking on the applet panel.

[Regression (gitsfans)]

here is a good workaround : Go to advanced javascript settings in firefox under Edit >Preferences >Content.

Enter in 'Advanced' to 'javascript' and uncheck 'Disable or replace contex menus'

It works just fine for me on affected pages/sites ;-)

[arm-c (arickmcniel)]

This is still an issue. I noticed it consistently with FF in 11.10 beta 2. Since todays upgrades, the issue has gotten worse.

The workaround of restore / maximize fixes the issue temporarily.

Would love to have this fixed, as it is very annoying and with so much work done in browsers now days, it will certainly be a detractor to new users of Ubuntu.

[Bruno Santos (bsantos)]

I noticed this problem only in my desktop which has an nvidia card. My laptop with intel doesn't show this issue.

For me, with 11.10, this issue is 100% reproducible with the scale plugin, so I tried to disable it and enable it again and the problem seemed to disappear, but after a few minutes it was back again.

Is there any experimental solution to mitigate this issue?

[Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson)]

You could try running Unity 2D. The problem only occurs with Compiz