279277 - sometimes ignores mouse left-button clicks, have to hold left-button down, even for links

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Adrian]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

I'm getting an intermittent problem with the way mouse left-button clicks are
handled.
Sometimes I click on a link and nothing happens. When this happens I have to
hold the button down and release it and then the browser follows the link. I
even get this problem sometimes with your "O" icon just below the titlebar close
button. (Which should load the "firefox central" page.)

Reproducible: Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
1. click on a link
2. nothing happens
3. press, hold, release    mouse button down when that happens


Actual Results:  
sometimes I have to hold the mouse button down and release it then it follows
the link (press, hold, release)

Expected Results:  
follow the link immediately after the button click

I have the Intellimouse software installed and the middle mouse button is
configured for a double-click. The left button is always set for normal
operation. Firefox is the only application that has this problem - all other
applications handle left-clicks OK.

This issue doesn't relate to middle-click or right-click buttons.

Comment 1

[xpzlk-soft]

I do have a similar problem but even holding mouse click on link doesn't work.
I'm using Firefox 1.0.4
I'm not sure about it but it seems that it occured after the latest TabBrowser 
extension installation (version is 1.14.2005060802

Right clik and middle clik is working properly

Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 3

[scott newcombe]

(In reply to comment #1)
> I do have a similar problem but even holding mouse click on link doesn't work.
> I'm using Firefox 1.0.4
> I'm not sure about it but it seems that it occured after the latest TabBrowser 
> extension installation (version is 1.14.2005060802
> 
> Right clik and middle clik is working properly

I have a similar problem with 1.5 beta 1 if I click a link or the back button
sometimes it does not register and I have to click again.  I do not need to hold
down the mouse button though for it to work

Comment 4

[Jo Hermans]

works for me in Firefox 1.5 beta 2

Are you sure it's not a driver problme ? Or maybe your mouse isn't dirty ?

Comment 5

[Samuel Sidler (old account; do not CC)]

Without further details, I'm going to close this bug as WFM. It works fine for me using Firefox 2.0.0.3 on Mac OS X and Windows XP. If you have further problems, and are using a new profile, please file a new bug for them.