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Right-clicking bookmarks yields grayed-out menu in FF 29...?

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Hey,

Since my upgrade to Firefox 29, when I right-click any bookmark in my bookmark list, I get the right-click context menu, as always, but ALL of the options are grayed-out so that I can't click on any of them? How do I fix this?

Hey, Since my upgrade to Firefox 29, when I right-click any bookmark in my bookmark list, I get the right-click context menu, as always, but ALL of the options are grayed-out so that I can't click on any of them? How do I fix this?

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I had the same problem today. I closed and reopened firefox and now all choices ("open in new tab", "open in new window", etc. are again available.

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hello, can you try to replicate this behaviour when you launch firefox in safe mode once? if not, maybe an addon is interfering here...

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Seems to be working now...I restarted Firefox something like 4 times and I can now get the right-click menus properly again! :)

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I had the same problem today. I closed and reopened firefox and now all choices ("open in new tab", "open in new window", etc. are again available.

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I nave FF 29.0.1 running on Fedora 19, fully updated. My system normally runs 24/7, getting rebooted only if there's a software update (such as the kernel) that can't be put into use any other way, and I generally leave FF running at all times for the convenience. Once in a while, the right-click menu on bookmarks gets grayed out. Closing and restarting FF fixes it, but it's not permanent; sooner or later it comes back. And, if it helps, this isn't new to 29.0.1; it's been doing it for some time. I kept hoping it would go away, but it looks like it won't, so I'm wondering if anybody out there knows how to get rid of it permanently.