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submitted 2 months ago by rail_@bark.lgbt to c/firefox@fedia.io

is it just me or #Firefox sometimes randomly decides to stop responding to any left mouse clicks on existing tabs? like trying to close, go back or unmute – with no reaction

right click and picking an option from the menu works

it started with the last release ig (i'm on 138.0.1, Arch on Wayland)

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[-] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 2 points 2 months ago

I have that as well, guess it is a general problem. Never bothered to mention it to someone.

My whole browser seems to not respond to anything. Switching to another app and switching back usually fixes it.

I guess it's a Wayland thing.

[-] Boomkop3@reddthat.com 2 points 2 months ago

Not just you, their tabs are shit and they refuse to fix it

[-] SharpLimefox@eldritch.cafe 1 points 2 months ago

@rail_@bark.lgbt i've seen that happen occasionally on sway and i3, and sometimes it was more general (i.e. the entire desktop was no longer responding to clicks but all shortcuts still worked). i don't think I've had it happen to Firefox specifically?

[-] glimse@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Never had that but middle click stops working to open new tabs quite often. Might be my mouse though

[-] yoasif@mastodon.social 1 points 2 months ago

@rail_@bark.lgbt I saw that recently on Nightly. That makes me think maybe it was package updates.

Is it still happening? Can you make it happen consistently?

[-] rail_@bark.lgbt 1 points 2 months ago

@yoasif@mastodon.social it's happening on a stable release and pretty much every time I use Firefox (but not all the time)

[-] yoasif@mastodon.social 1 points 2 months ago

@rail_@bark.lgbt See if you can figure out mozregression: https://mozilla.github.io/mozregression/

I generally use the CLI version.

[-] yoasif@mastodon.social 1 points 2 months ago
[-] brettm@swarm.coiloptic.org 1 points 2 months ago

can't help but notice that this bug would not exist if firefox didn't add such unnecessary bloat as moveable tabs

[-] core_of_arden@feddit.dk 1 points 2 months ago

Never any problems. Do you still have that problem when addons are disabled?

[-] ryan_harg@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 months ago

not just you, it happened to mee too, recently.

[-] Zikeji@programming.dev 1 points 2 months ago

Hmm, maybe some other interaction / conflict? Never experienced this on both my desktop (Arch, Wayland, Gnome) or my work PC (Fedora Silverblue, so Wayland and Gnome but slightly behind).

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