524727 - Right clicking on links occasionally does not work within Firefox using Windows 7 x64

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[sah471]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/532.0 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/3.0.195.27 Safari/532.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.1.3) Gecko/20090824 Firefox/3.5.3 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)

Occasionally right-clicking on links to, say, open a new tab, does not work within Firefox under Windows 7 x64. From my experience, this usually occurs after about twenty minutes of use. Right-clicking in all other programs and Windows Explorer continues to work, however.

Reproducible: Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Navigate websites for a while.
2. Attempt to right-click on a link to open a new tab, etc.
3. Right click fails to operate within Firefox, but functions in all other programs and Windows Explorer.
Actual Results:  
Right-clicking fails to work after a period of time surfing the internet.

Expected Results:  
The software should allow me to right-click on links and open new tabs via that route the entire time I am browsing web pages. I have switched to Google Chrome until there is an update to Firefox (which pains me).

I was using the default Firefox theme and do not have any extras currently operating.

Comment 1

[Tyler Downer [He/Him]]

Reporter, are you still seeing this issue with Firefox 3.6.12 or later in safe mode? If not, please close. These links can help you in your testing.
http://support.mozilla.com/kb/Safe+Mode
http://support.mozilla.com/kb/Managing+profiles
Also, please consider using the most recent Firefox 4 beta build, your bug may be resolved there.

Comment 2

[Tyler Downer [He/Him]]

No reply, INCOMPLETE. Please retest with Firefox 3.6.13 or later and a new profile (http://support.mozilla.com/kb/Managing+profiles). If you continue to see this issue with the newest firefox and a new profile, then please comment on this bug.