In Firefox/Thunderbird, sometimes click = drag

ryan83vt

I can't seem to find anyone else with this same problem. In the new Firefox 1.5 Beta 2, every once in a while clicking on a tab will result in not only the tab being activated, but the window thinks that I have clicked and held onto the tab. So the mouse turns into that sheet of paper with the arrow above it. Furthermore, if I then click on the page to "reset" it, it reloads the page (since it thinks that I have dragged the tab into the page). This also happens sometimes in Thunderbird when clicking on a new folder or e-mail. Is this a Mozilla issue or a GTK bug? I use KDE so I don't use a ton of GTK apps. Does this happen to anyone else?

yabbadabbadont · Posted: Tue Nov 01, 2005 5:53 am Post subject:

I haven't seen your particular problem, (I'm using 1.0.7 binary package), but I think you can just hit the escape key to cancel the drag action without it reloading the page. Not a fix, but maybe less annoying.

ryan83vt · Posted: Tue Nov 01, 2005 5:58 am Post subject:

Yea, I use the escape key to get rid of the drag thing... but that doesn't make it any less annoying, since it happens randomly.

yabbadabbadont · Posted: Tue Nov 01, 2005 6:06 am Post subject:

Submit a bug to the Firefox people. That's what beta releases are for after all.

ryan83vt · Posted: Tue Nov 01, 2005 2:11 pm Post subject: