No right-click in Firefox issue Topic is solved

[dedanna1029]

Look I've mentioned this a couple of times, but I really need to sort this out. When I right-click anything in Firefox 3.6.3 in Fedora 13, nothing happens. I mean nothing. No right-click menu, no anything. I've tried the tar ball too, and it's the same. This is preventing me from being able to open links in a new tab or window, from copying and pasting in Firefox, and preventing me from a multitude of other things that I could be doing. Seamonkey is not working so well right now; it has an issue where it crashes out of the clear blue on me, so I'm not using it.

I have no clue where to begin troubleshooting this. What I can do, is Cntrl+left-click links I see, and they will open in another tab, but this is very little help. If anyone knows of anything I can do, it would be very much appreciated. Right-click in everything else works.

Thanks.

[viking60]

Well you could use Arch Right click works just fine in my virtualbox so there is something wrong with your setup. Reeinstalling seems a good idea. There is a history of rightcklick not working in Fedora. Often a fsck and reinstalling nautilus will fix it.
But this is classical Guru stuff; so Guru Berserk are you finished flirting with the Norwegian nurses by now?

[dedanna1029]

Okay, sorry, didn't know it was a Fedora thing. How, since I have never had to, do I force an fsck? Thanks.

[viking60]

Okay, sorry, didn't know it was a Fedora thing. How, since I have never had to, do I force an fsck? Thanks.

This used to work:
as root

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cd /
touch forcefsck

It should do the check on the next reboot.
Lemme know

[dedanna1029]

Thanks. I have to do a reboot for updates in a bit anyway. Will let you know.

You said reinstall. As in Firefox? I can't do that without uninstalling a lot of Gnome... ditto Nautilus... :\

[viking60]

Thanks. I have to do a reboot for updates in a bit anyway. Will let you know.

You said reinstall. As in Firefox? I can't do that without uninstalling a lot of Gnome... ditto Nautilus... :\

Yes I was thinking of Firefox. And why not Nautilus while you are at it.
Then reinstall, and let them pull the dependencies- that should bring a "lot of gnome" back. (No risk no fun )
Edit
You might want to reboot like this for check above:

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/sbin/reboot -f

[dedanna1029]

Said it passed for fsck, but it didn't seem to really be a full fsck? Could be wrong, though.

Rebooted, and now there's no right-click anywhere at all on the desktop, except for the panel. I'm assuming this is because I haven't re-installed Nautilus or Firefox yet? But I have a desktop. It really didn't seem to take anywhere near what I thought it would when I went to uninstall Nautilus and Firefox.

[dedanna1029]

Just reinstalled Firefox and Nautilus to no avail.

[dedanna1029]

Well, I'll be a witch's bitch

It was the Multi-links and Snap Links Plus extensions - they were set to right-click to select. Changed them to the middle mouse button, and all's well again. Interesting. If I have any more issues with this, I'll post back.

Thanks!

[viking60]

Glad you solved it - I don't understand exactly how tho..

[dedanna1029]

Install the Snap Links Plus and Multi-links extensions in FF and watch what happens with right-click (leave the extensions alone for now once you install them, just reboot FF and go... try to right-click, etc.)

Then, once you've seen that you can no longer right-click, go to Tools-->Add-ons-->highlight the extensions, and go to Preferences. Change the mouse button to something else. Try again. Right-click is back. Those extensions default to use right-click, which interferes with using the right-click just for the right-click menu.

[viking60]

Aha Nicely wrapped up! Now the next guy will know how to avoid that problem.
That's what like about a good help section: A solved problem,however small, is of great help to the next guy.
What I missed here was that this is a Firefox plugin problem.