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Once again the current update of Firefox (87.0) eliminated the ui.submenuDelay setting. Screwed up everything when I tried to install previous version.

ui.submenuDelay is the most important feature for me. I hate the bookmarks opening on hoover, there is no delay at all.

Please fix and remember.

Once again the current update of Firefox (87.0) eliminated the ui.submenuDelay setting. Screwed up everything when I tried to install previous version. ui.submenuDelay is the most important feature for me. I hate the bookmarks opening on hoover, there is no delay at all. Please fix and remember.

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facrowe1 said

I hate the bookmarks opening on hoover, there is no delay at all.

So where an old-style menu has a > indicating a submenu is going to fly out, the default delay of 0.3 seconds is too fast?

Usually unless there was a change to how a preference works, it is preserved through each automatic update. Is this the only customized preference you lost? Were you able to re-create it this way:

(1) In a new tab, type or paste about:config in the address bar and press Enter/Return. Click the button accepting the risk.

(2) In the search box in the page, type or paste ui.submenuDelay and pause while the list is filtered

Assuming you see a bar with Boolean Number String:

(3) Click Number then click the + button to create the new preference and open an editing area.

(4) Type your preferred delay time in milliseconds (for example, 1000 => 1 second) and then click the blue check mark button to save the change.

(Downgrading to a previous version triggers Firefox to create a new profile, so that's a different set of issues.)