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I can no longer long-press on links to open menu

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agentme
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An issue suddenly appeared for me in the past few days: whenever I long press on a link, instead of opening a menu, some words in the link get highlighted instead. It's impossible for me to open a link in a new tab, which is something that's really critical to me. I have no problem long pressing on links in Chrome.

An issue suddenly appeared for me in the past few days: whenever I long press on a link, instead of opening a menu, some words in the link get highlighted instead. It's impossible for me to open a link in a new tab, which is something that's really critical to me. I have no problem long pressing on links in Chrome.

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lbarrett
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Yes, this just started happening to me. I have no idea how to open a link in a new tab, and it's very frustrating, as I do that all the time.

ajrich789
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Same problem. Long press just brings up the copy/share/select, etc menu. Long press works OK in Chrome. Running Firefox 64.0.1 on Android 8.1.0

christ1
christ1
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https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1245183

ajrich789
ajrich789
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Thanks for the link but holding the long press even longer didn't help. Noticed that the initial press puts a grey highlight over the text - this would in the past open the context menu when held. Now when the press is held the text then gets a blue highlight and the copy / paste options appear. An older device running Firefox 64.0.2 and Android 6.0 does not have the problem. Is it an operating system conflict?