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tabs become unselectable and can't be dragged out of the main window

This started happening a few days ago. I tried to drag a tab out of the main window to put it in its own window on my other monitor, but the tab just became unselectable,… (read more)

This started happening a few days ago.

I tried to drag a tab out of the main window to put it in its own window on my other monitor, but the tab just became unselectable, and if i scrolled in the tab bar, the tab icon and text would remain locked in place in the display while the other tabs moved behind it.

The main Firefox window also lost the minimize, restore, and close buttons. The only way to make the tabs work was to close Firefox and relaunch it.

I noticed this happened only after any app in the OS went full screen, be it a steam game, or another Firefox window, or a VLC window, or anything else that I did that made an app full screen in any of my monitors.

I am using Ubuntu 24.04 with KDE Plasma 5.27.12. Kernel is 6.14.0-29. Display server is Wayland.

Initially I thought this could be a problem with the snap version of Firefox, so now I've installed the deb package, but the problem remains. Firefox is the only app which presents a problem of any kind when any window goes full screen.

Here's a video showing what the problem looks like, in case my description was not clear. The ghostly tab in this video is the chess.com home page and you can see it as the third tab from the top right of the video, and it remains in that position as i scroll the other tabs, completely unselectable with the mouse.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mAfPS3_qkg

Any idea of what could be causing this issue to appear?

Thank you!

Asked by sara 5 months ago

Last reply by jonzn4SUSE 4 months ago

Firefox ios slows down during use

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Asked by yiffster 5 months ago

Last reply by Platinum XYZ 4 months ago

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Asked by Ayan Sarkar 5 months ago

Last reply by Shirmaya John 5 months ago

Screen Tearing only in Firefox

I get screen tearing on videos or when i scroll on any website. Only happens on Firefox, I've tested Chrome, Edge, Opera. https://streamable.com/80gxcm Smooth Scrolling i… (read more)

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https://streamable.com/80gxcm

Smooth Scrolling is Off. Hardware Acceleration is Off. I've tried toggling "gfx.font_rendering.directwrite.force-enabled" Firefox is up to date.

None of this has helped.

Asked by niktr 2 months ago

Last reply by jonzn4SUSE 2 months ago

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Asked by 6c9fdtjx8m 5 months ago

Last reply by Paul 5 months ago

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Asked by mbarroso 5 months ago

Last reply by Konstantina Papadea 4 months ago

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Asked by atreff 2 months ago

Last reply by jonzn4SUSE 2 months ago

Why is my Firefox using so much battery after the latest update?

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Hi, After updating to the latest version of Firefox on my laptop, I’ve noticed that the battery drains much faster than before. I haven’t changed any settings, but the browser seems to consume more power even with just a few tabs open.

I’ve already tried:

Restarting my laptop

Disabling unnecessary extensions

Clearing cache

But the issue is still there. Is there any specific setting or workaround to reduce battery usage in the new update?

Thanks in advance!

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Last reply by rJ 12 hours ago

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Last reply by Ed 2 months ago

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