I’ve recently upgraded to Firefox 3 and have noticed a huge issue which is making me consider switching browsers (something I don’t really want to do). When you click anywhere in the browser and go to drag, rather than selecting text or dragging the image (as you’d expect), the entire browser window moves. This means I’m also unable to do simple things such as using the scroll bars!
I’m running Firefox 3 on Mac OS-X, and have never encountered an issue like this prior to the upgrade. If anyone has any suggestions as to how to resolve this I’d be very grateful!
- Tags: Firefox
Joshua Lock
July 5th, 2008 at 6:12 pm
Hmm, weird.
Nothing obvious on the Mozilla Bugzilla:
basic search for drag on FF3 Mac. You could possibly try some other terms?
Maybe try searching the Firefox support knowledge base.
One thing that might be worth trying is backup your bookmarks then delete (or move, so that FF can’t find it) your Firefox configuration directory.
It’s probably somewhere like ~/Library/Application Support/Firefox
or somewhere like that (it’s ~/.mozilla/firefox on Linux) in your Library folder. It’s possible that something is screwy with your config and temporarily moving this folder is an easy way to test that.
Joshua Lock
July 5th, 2008 at 6:13 pm
Also, links don’t show up to well in your comments :/ There’re two clickable links in the comment above!
Cat
July 5th, 2008 at 9:11 pm
Thanks Josh
Good spot with the links – i’ll change my stlyesheet so they look better!
Will give your suggestion a try now and will let you know how well it works
Cat
July 5th, 2008 at 9:25 pm
LEGEND!!
I closed Firefox, deleted that directory, re-opened Firefox, and now it’s fixed!
Thanks v. much – guess I owe you a beer?!
Cat
July 5th, 2008 at 9:44 pm
Hmm – on further investigation – it hasn’t totally fixed the issue :-S
Here’s what’s happening…
Restart Firefox and the issue doesn’t occur. Go to an asp page and then that seems to happen. The issue only arises AFTER I’ve visited the Desktop Towers game (note – i’ve tested that it’s not a flash issue – other flash sites don’t cause the problem).
If you restart Firefox, the issue disappears again! Freaky…
Chris Johnson
September 7th, 2008 at 9:43 pm
Thanks! I’ve been seeing this too and never suspected it had to do with that game. I also had no luck finding any relevant bug in Bugzilla, so I filed one. (Writing bug reports can be so awkward!)
Also, you don’t have to restart Firefox. Other windows where you weren’t playing DTD and new windows are unaffected.
John
September 11th, 2008 at 5:17 am
Hello, I posted a temporary work around to allow you to select text on a page, and I also just noticed the double click allows for you to use your scroll bars too:
http://support.mozilla.com/tiki-view_forum_thread.php?forumId=1&comments_parentId=137736
Nicole
March 12th, 2009 at 5:07 pm
It looks like there’s a fix for this bug, but I don’t know anything about how Bugzilla works – can the fixes be downloaded, or will they be worked into the next release of the software?
Here’s the link to the bug that was fixed:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=476393
Nicole
March 12th, 2009 at 5:07 pm
BTW – I ran into this issue when using Visual Thesaurus…
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