Right-click menu on hyperlink disappears on mouseover

[Leo Huckvale]

Binary package hint: firefox

Right-clicking on hyperlinks will always show a menu, for opening in a new tab etc., but sometimes the menu disappears on hovering the mouse over it.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: firefox 4.0.1+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.11.04.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-8.42-generic 2.6.38.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-8-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed May 4 11:41:14 2011
FirefoxPackages:
 firefox 4.0.1+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.11.04.1
 flashplugin-installer 10.2.159.1ubuntu1
 adobe-flashplugin N/A
 icedtea-plugin N/A
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release i386 (20101007)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: firefox
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to natty on 2011-05-01 (2 days ago)

[Michele Mangili (mangilimic)]

Hi!

I had the same issue on 11.04 but I could easily solve this, with the workaround found here:

http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/questions/753329#answer-161051

Workaround:

In Firefox, "Go to advanced javascript settings in ubuntu it's at Edit->Preferences->Content->Advanced (next to "Enable javascript")-> and now make sure "Disable or replace contex menus" is not selected."

Cheers!

[Leo Huckvale (leohuckvale)]

Fantastic. Thanks Michele!

[Leo Huckvale (leohuckvale)]

It's happening again. Looks like it's still an unsolved problem.

[zzarko (zzarko-gmail)]

I just installed a fresh copy of 11.04, because I had too much annoyances after upgrade from 10.10. One of them was that after some time, right-click menu in firefox will dissapear after mouse-over, like this:
1. right-click anywhere in firefox (not just hyperlink)
2. move mouse in any direction -> menu dissapears
This behaviour can be fixed by minimizing firefox window and maximizing it again, but after some time, it happens again. And it happens again after fresh install. Extremly annoying. It doesn't happen when I start session in Ubuntu Classic mode.

[zzarko (zzarko-gmail)]

I thought I solved this problem by disabling Global menu extension, but it happened again. The good thing is that with Global menu disabled, this happens a lot less frequent.

[zzarko (zzarko-gmail)]

This problem is somehow Unity-related, as it doesn't happend with Ubuntu Classic interface (at least, I didn't see it so far). With Unity, this happens sooner or latter, but always (on my computer).

[Mateusz Marzantowicz (mmarzantowicz)]

The problem is not Unity related. I'm having this issue since Firefox 3 (and that was the time Gnome was default window manager in Ubuntu).

Now I'm curious why this problem still exists in Ubuntu 11.10 - Firefox is now 7! Maybe it is not a bug in Firefox but in GTK?

[Steve Geemaggio (stevekilleen)]

Thanks very much Michele. The Firefox settings instructions Michele gave above fixed the bug for me.

[Steve Geemaggio (stevekilleen)]

Oh, and I meant to say, I'm using Ubuntu 11.10.