1011706 - Firefox intermittently becomes unresponsive to mouse

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core :: DOM: Selection, defect)

Description

[Lonnen :lonnen]

For two days nightly has intermittently become unresponsive to mouse clicks. It usually happens following an action that opens a new tab -- either opening a new tab directly or by clicking a link that opens in a new tab.

The browser chrome becomes lightly colored as if it lost focus. Clicking on the page will not restore it, but the browser still responds to some keyboard shortcuts.

I left the browser console opening until it has reoccured several times and it is frequently accompanied by the following error:

    Comparable link missing required property: frecency  NewTabUtils.jsm :836


Using Nightly 32.0a1 (2014-05-15) and several prior versions

Comment 1

[Chenxia Liu [:liuche]]

I'm also seeing this in the latest nightly, 6/01 version. This is not restricted to new tabs, and the consistent symptom for my hangs is that cursors no longer show in text input boxes, even though text entry will work.

Comment 2

[Mike Conley (:mconley) (:⚙️)]

I _think_ this is bug 1013852, and should be fixed in a recent Nightly.

lonnen, can you confirm?

Comment 3

[Lonnen :lonnen]

I am running the 2014-06-03 nightly and it just happened. About to update to the latest. Will follow up next time it happens.

Comment 4

[Lonnen :lonnen]

It just reoccurred in Zimbra compose after some cmd+tab switching to another window. Right click wasn't working and the chrome was light grey -- partial focus or something. Now using: 32.0a1 (2014-06-04)

Comment 5

[Lonnen :lonnen]

Rereading this "Now" is confusing. I mean I was using that build at the time.

Comment 6

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

Cursor not being visible in other tabs when an air.mozilla.org tab is open is a bug I've seen that might seem similar to some of the symptoms described here. Selecting the air.mozilla.org tab and moving the mouse around there usually fixes the problem. I suspect it's a flash-related issue of some sort. That sounds a bit different than what's described in comment 0, though.

Comment 7

[Lawrence Mandel [:lmandel] (use needinfo)]

:lonnen - Have you been able to reproduce this bug since June 5?

Comment 8

[Lonnen :lonnen]

:lmandel -- nope

Comment 9

[Lawrence Mandel [:lmandel] (use needinfo)]

Thanks :lonnen. I'm resolving as works for me and dropping tracking.