[ubuntu-nz] Weird right mouse button behavior in firefox.

Sean Tindale sean.tindale at gmail.com
Thu Nov 27 20:46:20 GMT 2008


Yep, I have this problem too. I have two computers that I run Ubuntu on. One
is a high spec desktop PC and the other is an Asus EEE PC. I only get this
problem on my Asus EEE PC, I wonder if it has anything to do with the low
speed hardware...?

On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 9:38 AM, Tim Uckun <timuckun at gmail.com> wrote:

> I am having a very strange problem.  The right mouse button click does
> strange things in firefox.  Sometimes it opens the page in another
> tab, other times it wants to email the page, other times it wants to
> bookmark the page, yet other times it wants to save the page.
> Sometimes I have to right click repeatedly to get the context menu to
> come up.
>
> I haven't noticed this behavior in other applications but then again I
> don't use the right mouse button much in other applications.
>
> This seems to happen most often with a USB mouse but it also happens
> with the trackpad buttons.  I have tried several brands of mice  and
> they all exhibit the same behavior.
>
> Is this happening to anybody else?
>
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