609660 - popups ads are disabling the mouse button while browsing in firefox. making the user think the mouse is broken

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: Security, defect)

Description

[gorden michaelis]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.10) Gecko/20100922 Ubuntu/10.10 (maverick) Firefox/3.6.10
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.10) Gecko/20100922 Ubuntu/10.10 (maverick) Firefox/3.6.10

I found the problem with the button disable problem.
Tons of people are reporting problems with their mouse button being disabled while using the pc.http://www.google.com/#hl=en&expIds=17259,24813,25228,26637,27197,27321,27356,27360,27447&sugexp=ldymls&xhr=t&q=forums+mouse+button+disabled&cp=7&pf=p&sclient=psy&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=forums+mouse+button+disabled&gs_rfai=&pbx=1&fp=f436bf9c73b5ce9d


CAUSE:  some popups and websites are disabling the mouse by installing a bug in the cookies.  if you clear your browsing history and cookies the mouse will work again.

Reproducible: Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
I was on a couple different websites when I went to an advertiser link or a popup delivered a mouse cookie code that disabled the mouse button
Actual Results:  

CAUSE:  some popups and websites are disabling the mouse by installing a bug in the cookies.  if you clear your browsing history and cookies the mouse will work again.

Comment 1

[Brandon Sterne (:bsterne)]

"Disabling the mouse by installing a bug in the cookies"... hmm, that doesn't sound likely.  If you have an example of a webpage where this happens, please attach it to the bug.  There's not much we can do with this report as it currently stands.

Comment 2

[Virginia (please send need info request to Brindusa Tot)]

Hi,

I'm marking this ticket as Resolved - WFM due to the fact that the reporter is no longer active and we don't have specific test pages to try to reproduce this issue. Since it was reported 11 years ago, it may as well be outdated.

Regards,
Virginia