I can not get the menu button to work
I am running Firefox on Linux Mint 13 Maya. For some reason many of the buttons in Firefox (not on webpages but in FireFox itself) do not respond to mouse clicks. I have tried Safemode, refresh/restore and uninstall/reboot/reinstall. Still the same problem. I have a hard time accessing settings because the menu button is one of those that "depresses" but does not respond to any mouse clicks. Also I can not activate or deactivate plugins because of the same problem.
Chosen solution
OK After trying more things than I want to try to list. I think I have a solution.
I installed the Cinnamon Desktop environment and logged out and then logged in after choosing Cinnamon and the problem went away.
I do not know why I suddenly started having the problem in xfce, because FireFox had been working very well in it and my system was a little more responsive using it.
It works and I can go back to using FIrefox as my primary browser.
Blessings, MilwTD
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Two things to try.
Start your Computer in safe mode with networking. Then start Firefox. Try Safe web sites. Is the problem still there?
Starting The Computer In Safe Mode;
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Create a new, blank profile. Is the problem still there?
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profile-manager-create-and-remove-firefox-profiles
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/recovering-important-data-from-an-old-profile
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/back-and-restore-information-firefox-profiles
HI,
I tried the reboot from the grub interface in recovery mode. Did not help. But the following message appeared in the terminal window:
firefox -P
1432977776712 addons.update-checker WARN Update manifest for {972ce4c6-7e08-4474-a285-3208198ce6fd} did not contain an updates property 1432977776772 addons.update-checker WARN Update manifest for mint-search-enhancer@linuxmint.com did not contain an updates property
I then tried the refresh that was suggested in the link before that creating a new profile. Did not help.
Then I tried creating a new profile. I could not do it from Firefox directly because while the menu button "depresses" it does not open the menu. So I opened Firefox from the terminal window with the firefox -P command and created a new profile and then reopened Firefox the problem persisted.
BTW I then started Firefox itself in safe mode (just in case I had not properly understood the original safe mode suggestion) using the firefox -safe-mode command in the terminal window. The problem still persists.
Blessings, MilwTD
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Chosen Solution
OK After trying more things than I want to try to list. I think I have a solution.
I installed the Cinnamon Desktop environment and logged out and then logged in after choosing Cinnamon and the problem went away.
I do not know why I suddenly started having the problem in xfce, because FireFox had been working very well in it and my system was a little more responsive using it.
It works and I can go back to using FIrefox as my primary browser.
Blessings, MilwTD
Very good work. Well Done.