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

[Chris]

postulate.  the hardware cannot keep up with the USB mouse
chris
On Fri, 2008-11-28 at 09:46 +1300, Sean Tindale wrote:
> 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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