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Drag and drop broken / mouse cursor not reacting

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Rhys
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On Ubuntu, drag and drop has broken for me. My mouse cursor does not seem to react to different types of content, like hovering over links. My main problem is that if I highlight a piece of text, or some other content block on a page, and drag it, it does not work as smoothly as it should.

Has anyone else experienced this recently?

I find closing Firefox helps temporarily but within 10-15 minutes the same problem occurs.

I have re-installed Firefox and I am running the latest version. I haven't experienced the problem in Safe Mode.

It only occurs on Firefox and is browser-wide.

On Ubuntu, drag and drop has broken for me. My mouse cursor does not seem to react to different types of content, like hovering over links. My main problem is that if I highlight a piece of text, or some other content block on a page, and drag it, it does not work as smoothly as it should. Has anyone else experienced this recently? I find closing Firefox helps temporarily but within 10-15 minutes the same problem occurs. I have re-installed Firefox and I am running the latest version. I haven't experienced the problem in Safe Mode. It only occurs on Firefox and is browser-wide.

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Rhys
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It's also worth mentioning that I find ESC helps "unstick" the mouse cursor

jonzn4SUSE
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Are talking about highlighting text and then dragging it? see screenshot What desktop? X11 or Wayland?

Did you try Firefox in Safe Mode? https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/diagnose-firefox-issues-using-troubleshoot-mode#search104

Try downloading Firefox from Mozilla. Download, unzip, and run firefox-bin from the folder and see if you have the same issue. https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/all/#product-desktop-release


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