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Since the automatic update firefox treats my machine as a touch device, and has changed my interfaces in inconvenient ways on certain pages, how do I fix this?

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This happened once previously, and I believe changing this setting in about:config fixed it: dom.w3c_touch_events.enabled

However, I still have that manually set to 0 and the problem returned with the newest automatic update. It creates check boxes and sliders all over a page I use extensively and makes the scroll only work with flick scrolling, which is awful. All of these are inconvenient. Does anyone know how to reverse this?

This happened once previously, and I believe changing this setting in about:config fixed it: dom.w3c_touch_events.enabled However, I still have that manually set to 0 and the problem returned with the newest automatic update. It creates check boxes and sliders all over a page I use extensively and makes the scroll only work with flick scrolling, which is awful. All of these are inconvenient. Does anyone know how to reverse this?

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cor-el
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Check that you run Firefox in desktop mode and not in tablet mode.

gmas
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So I went into system settings and changed it from automatic to use desktop mode, but that didn't' seem to help. I restarted my browser but not my PC (I have a tone of stuff I'm working on) does it require a reboot? Any other ideas?