440005 - Links and clickable items like scrollbar not working

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Klaus Egvang]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; da; rv:1.9) Gecko/2008052906 Firefox/3.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; da; rv:1.9) Gecko/2008052906 Firefox/3.0

After a page is loaded nothing is clicable. That include bookmarks, scrollbar, links red cross top right etc. Nothing. If browser is mininized from the task bar and then maximized again. everything works again untill a new page loads. Drop down lists can only be activated but nothing can be chosen.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. click on a link
2. after new page has loaded nothing works
3. minimize and maximize from task bar and then things works


Expected Results:  
Works until a new page is loaded

Made links work after reload

Comment 1

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

This works fine for me with the latest 3.0 build on Windows XP. Have you tried:

- Firefox's safe-mode to exclude extension/theme problems
- a new profile
- a reinstall in a new empty folder? 

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Safe_Mode_(Firefox)
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_Folder

Comment 2

[Klaus Egvang]

Tried safe-mode, did not help
Reinstalled in a new folder. Did not help
New profile? I decided to delete it and to uninstall completely. Did so and now it works.

I have upgraded FF before without problems though. Should I have uninstalled FF2 before installing?

Comment 3

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

Normally it is not necessary to uninstall the previous version. But sometimes other programs, legal or not, install badly written (spyware) code in Mozilla Firefox folder and in this case deleting the folder before reinstalling should solve the problem.
In your case it seems a corrupted profile. Can happen. 
Resolving worksforme.