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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 1 month ago

Last reply by jonzn4SUSE 1 week ago

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Last reply by jonzn4SUSE 3 months ago

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Asked by miketortiz 1 month ago

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Last reply by elkianlionblood 1 month ago

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Asked by stu.cz 2 months ago

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Asked by clmcda63 4 months ago

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Asked by jeremynoodnic 2 months ago

Last reply by Paul 2 months ago