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Right click not working in Firefox 3.5

Posted on July 4th, 2009 at 14:20, in .com, How To.

For those of you who have installed (updated to) the new Firefox 3.5 and have problems with using the right click (the contextual menu not showing up) the solution to fix this is to get rid of the Yahoo Toolbar.

From my brief experience with it on Windows (Firefox 3.5 is not available yet in the Ubuntu repositories for an automatic update) it seems to have a better load time for web pages, especially for those involving lots of JavaScript.

For a list of improvements and new features (including the new HTML 5 standard) you can go here.

UPDATE: As 570n3r said in his comment, AdBlock+ has the same effect. Disable it too.

80 Comments

Courtney said

on July 15th, 2009,

at 04:21 hours

Thanks for the tip! The right-click problem was driving me crazy!

Anjoe said

on July 16th, 2009,

at 21:10 hours

Thank you very much. I tried everything I could think off.

Radu said

on July 16th, 2009,

at 22:45 hours

Glad that I could offer a good tip!

Falcon said

on July 21st, 2009,

at 14:02 hours

Was not able to resolve it for some days now. Thanks for the ans to this at last

Right click not working in Firefox 3.5 | Petra Gregorová said

on July 23rd, 2009,

at 19:54 hours

[...] started to poke around the web, till I came across a possible solution after reading Right click not working in Firefox 3.5. According to this post, !Yahoo Toolbar is causing this issue because Firefox 3.5 is not available [...]

Numo said

on July 26th, 2009,

at 10:31 hours

Still can’t right click, anything else that could be the problem? Thanks for any help.

Radu said

on July 26th, 2009,

at 12:04 hours

Hi, Numo! It might be another plug-in that interferes with the contextual menu. Try deactivating all the plug-ins and then activating them one by one, testing the right click. Or, if you exactly what plug-in tries to add its menu entries to the contextual one, deactivate it and test.

Good luck!

Ted said

on August 3rd, 2009,

at 19:24 hours

Who knows how you figured this out, Radu, but that was precisely the solution! Thanks for the help. Long live the RIGHT CLICK!!!

Shugo said

on August 6th, 2009,

at 19:59 hours

I love you so much right now. Thanks for that.

arfeen said

on August 7th, 2009,

at 15:27 hours

thanks man … it really helped …!!!

Karla said

on August 12th, 2009,

at 01:38 hours

Thank you soooo much.

Proxy said

on August 17th, 2009,

at 20:54 hours

Thanks man.
It solved my problem
Cheers

Kiwi said

on August 18th, 2009,

at 14:20 hours

Very helpful. I just about went back to IE. Thanks.

Robert Hodges said

on August 21st, 2009,

at 17:48 hours

I hate toolbars and take them off when ever I find that I have accidentally installed them, or the software ignored the option not to install them…

Ugo Strange said

on August 22nd, 2009,

at 08:09 hours

I do not have a Yahoo Toolbar, so how do I fix this problem ?

Radu said

on August 22nd, 2009,

at 11:51 hours

Try to see what other extensions you have are trying to mix with your contextual menu. The old fashioned way would be to disable them one by one until you get the contextual menu. The last one disabled is the one causing problems. Good luck!

german said

on August 24th, 2009,

at 08:56 hours

what are the extensions and plug-ins?? how can i check those?? please help

Radu said

on August 24th, 2009,

at 10:15 hours

Hi, German! To see what extensions and plug-ins are installed in your browser go to Tools – Add-ons.

Scott said

on August 27th, 2009,

at 04:13 hours

Thanks worked perfectly.

Bev said

on August 28th, 2009,

at 20:56 hours

Thanks so much!!!! After hrs of frustration, your advice fixed it, Bingo!

Alan G said

on August 28th, 2009,

at 21:49 hours

Radu,

Thanks a million times for this. I had to relearn ctrl + shortcuts for the past 24 hours but disabling the Yahoo toolbar fixed it.

Thank you.

Bill C. said

on September 5th, 2009,

at 23:25 hours

Beautiful!! I was in at least three stages of aggravation. Much cursing and pounding of fists. (That doesn’t work)

vjv said

on September 7th, 2009,

at 14:50 hours

Thank u VERY much. Like others, I was going mad and having to resort to IE in the most desperate needs.
SOOOO glad to have function functioning!

Simi said

on September 10th, 2009,

at 04:45 hours

Thank you so much. That was so easy. I wish I had checked this earlier. No “right-click” was just painful.

jay arlington condos said

on September 15th, 2009,

at 00:12 hours

thank goodness. I couldn’t function!

dilip said

on September 16th, 2009,

at 08:35 hours

Thank you…Its now working fine…..good one…

Mystic said

on September 28th, 2009,

at 22:38 hours

I am still having a problem with the right click menu not working. Mainly it is not letting me open links in a diff tab.

I have disabled everything all the extensions (i only had 3 that were enabled Forcefield toolbar 1.5.31.0, Microsoft.net framework assistant1.0, and Stumble upon 3.38)

I disabled Plugins ( i had 3 of them as well Mozzilla Default Plug-in 1.0.0.15, Shockwave Flash 10.0.32.18, and Windows Presentation Foundation 3.5.30729.1)

I am using red Shift tv3 as a theme

This is a fresh install on a new computer running vista 64bit

Any ideas on what i need to do to fix the right click menu because i use it a lot and really miss this feature

Radu said

on September 28th, 2009,

at 23:08 hours

Hello, Mystic! I really don’t have a clue about the problem you are facing and unfortunately I don’t have time to set up an environment identical to what you have. Maybe there are some leftovers from your toolbars/extensions/plug-ins that affect the way your Firefox contextual menu is displayed. Try reinstalling Firefox after you completely remove it from your system. Because we talk about Windows, it would be good if you can clean the registries too for entries containing Firefox in their keys.

sign guy said

on October 5th, 2009,

at 20:02 hours

THANK YOU!!!! It was driving me nuts too and causing lost time.

james said

on October 9th, 2009,

at 22:57 hours

I love you

hhotelconsult said

on October 12th, 2009,

at 22:04 hours

THANK YOU SO MUCH I AM SHOUTING MY TOTAL DEVOTION TO YOU. Yay.

Also… remind people that even tho the Yahoo toolbar might not be enabled, and might not even be on the toolbar menu, it can still be active in the Add-Ons menu under “Extensions”. I hate yahoo, never use it… and never even knew it was there until this problem. Think the little lady is pressing my buttons again. =) I mean… she is downloading things accidentally. haha.

Thank you again!

kwasi ashton said

on October 18th, 2009,

at 00:37 hours

Thanks a million dude.

alok said

on October 21st, 2009,

at 06:57 hours

thanks man!

570n3r said

on October 21st, 2009,

at 21:07 hours

I turned all of my add-ons off and turned them back on 1 by 1, AdBlock+ was messing mine up……… Yahoo is shite, but i didn’t have it anywhere on my laptop so it took a while to turn them all off and back on with all the firefox restarts. All fine again now.

Lisa said

on October 23rd, 2009,

at 00:43 hours

This just started today and I never would have figured it out. Sure enough, SOMETHING installed the Yahoo toolbar again and once I got rid of it, it works again. Thanks because I quickly learned that I can’t live without right clicking

Sid said

on October 24th, 2009,

at 12:30 hours

Thanks a lot

site expert said

on October 30th, 2009,

at 09:50 hours

thanks man
the right clik problem made me nervous

vasu said

on October 31st, 2009,

at 17:27 hours

Thanks a lot for the tip.

Billamama said

on November 5th, 2009,

at 04:31 hours

Many Many Thanks! it worked

Dboiler said

on November 5th, 2009,

at 23:40 hours

This has been driving me nuts (short drive, I know) for weeks. Thanks tons for the easy fix.

baj said

on November 8th, 2009,

at 00:41 hours

thank u, this is the 1st nifty tip i learned after upgrading to firefox 3.5.5. way to go man!

alex said

on November 8th, 2009,

at 21:52 hours

thanks a lot man !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i was really annoyed with right click disabled in my firefox ……………..
your tip worked for me !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Grateful said

on November 13th, 2009,

at 00:06 hours

Dude!!! That was driving me crazy!!!!!! thanks for solving all my problems

Jojo said

on November 13th, 2009,

at 14:28 hours

ohhh yess!! i remove the yahoo toolbar and it works… Thank you soooooooooooo mucccccccccccccchh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

sang lam said

on November 17th, 2009,

at 09:54 hours

thanks for the tip. man, this is annoying as hell. i had to run in safe mode for a few hours before i found this tip.

much appreciated. disabling plug-in worked.

Maryanne said

on November 19th, 2009,

at 05:38 hours

OMG! thank you thank you, I have been searching EVERYWHERE on the net how to fix this and YAY!

billy said

on December 7th, 2009,

at 01:57 hours

Hi,
I disabled the yahoo toolbar and still cannot right-click. Is there a list of toolbars that cause this problem? I have 7 different toolbars installed….

Radu said

on December 7th, 2009,

at 09:29 hours

Billy, I don’t know other stuff affecting the contextual menu other than Yahoo! Toolbar and AdBlock+. Try disabling them 1 by 1…

Dawood Ajaz said

on December 9th, 2009,

at 05:10 hours

Thanks alot for your help… Yeah, because of this issue I was using the IE to do right click things.

Ryan said

on December 12th, 2009,

at 00:40 hours

That was such a pain in my side- thank you again!

Brandon said

on December 13th, 2009,

at 00:49 hours

For those of you that are not too technically savvy, here is what to do in Firefox if you don’t think you have the Yahoo toolbar:

On the top menu select “Tools”
Select “Add-ons”
Under the Yahoo Toolbar, select “Uninstall”
On top of the same box select “Restart Firefox” and wait until Firefox reopens. Fixed!

Kaly said

on December 14th, 2009,

at 03:25 hours

Thank you so much! The lack of my right click abilities was driving me absolutely mad!

david said

on December 18th, 2009,

at 05:11 hours

Thanks man! Fixed my issue.

electric scooters said

on December 19th, 2009,

at 01:08 hours

Thank you very much for writing this blog post, I installed some piece of software that must have ninja installed the yahoo toolbar.

It was driving me crazy the right click not working since I was doing SEO and building links, and I couldn’t right click on links to open them in new tabs.

I am going to put a link to this post on my personal blog.

SmartAceW0LF said

on December 24th, 2009,

at 21:09 hours

Thanks Radu! Don’t know how exactly Yahoo got snuck in on me. I loathe anything with that name on it! Anyway, thanks again mate!

gadget said

on December 25th, 2009,

at 12:14 hours

well yahoo toolbar is really bad for it..i hate it

Fototime.co.uk said

on January 5th, 2010,

at 22:53 hours

I didn’t have yahoo toolbar installed on firefox but i went into the manage addons and low and behold it was there but disabled! do i uninstalled it and restarted firefox and bingo the right key is back!

YEAHHHH Thanks a million!

Raghavendra said

on January 8th, 2010,

at 07:39 hours

Thanks for the tip. It worked.

d said

on January 8th, 2010,

at 22:21 hours

woOOOO FINALLY headacke over ….

Thank you thread Originator

ivbob2 said

on January 11th, 2010,

at 06:57 hours

Omg… i was reading this and was thinking it was all bull, because i thought i deleted the yahoo toolbar, yet when i when to the addon thingy there the yahoo tool bar was, and i disabled it and sure as heck, it works… thanks, i’ve been going nuts for a couple weeks now, not being able to use it…

mudha said

on January 14th, 2010,

at 08:46 hours

matur nuwun (java language) = thanks for your tips

Craig said

on January 15th, 2010,

at 01:09 hours

Thanks a lot for this, I was starting to think that my laptop button was playing up! Even though right click worked fine outside FF

toad said

on January 17th, 2010,

at 05:24 hours

removing yahoo works. thanks!

Bob said

on January 23rd, 2010,

at 01:33 hours

Disabling the Yahoo toolbar worked. Thanks.

Eric said

on January 25th, 2010,

at 03:40 hours

Thanks, worked like a charm!!

Rose said

on January 26th, 2010,

at 13:14 hours

Good work this WAS driving me nuts! but getting rid of that Stupid Yahoo Tool bar did work I don’t think many people know about this method thanks again!.

Ari said

on January 29th, 2010,

at 09:02 hours

Thank you so very much. I had switched mice and eventually worked around without it, but your fix worked instantly!

Kara said

on February 4th, 2010,

at 20:10 hours

Many many thanks.
Got rid of the Yahoo toolbar and the right click i s working okay now.

Jeremy said

on February 21st, 2010,

at 18:15 hours

Thank you for this tip. I try to never install the Yahoo! toolbar, but somehow, it got installed and I lost the ability to right-click. Uninstalling it fixed this issue. Thanks for the tip.

Lucidly Lost said

on April 14th, 2010,

at 12:52 hours

I don’t have the Yahoo! toolbar installed.I disabled TabMix Plus, the latest addition to my addons, and right click is back in Firefox 3.6.3. Thanks for the push in the right direction.

Doc Rings said

on May 4th, 2010,

at 17:15 hours

“Ask Toolbar” also screws up the right-click contextual menu… it sucked. Thanks for the tip to deactivate the add-on to make it work again.

B_Jones said

on May 7th, 2010,

at 18:51 hours

I made sure NOT to install the yahoo toolbar when I installed Firefox, but when I read that disabling it was the solution, I thought I was out of luck. I DID have an antivirus toolbar, however. I had AVG toolbar. When I got rid of this, problem solved.

paresh said

on May 23rd, 2010,

at 11:11 hours

Thanks man 4 you guide. I did it and got success in right click problem.

Mr Beno said

on May 23rd, 2010,

at 21:25 hours

Hi Radu
Thanks for this posting, and all attempts, I have the same issue and even though I have disabled all addons, I still have the problem. I use Crazy Browser, but the changes doesnt help with IE either. Can you assist further?
I even tried to rename a registry file under Software classes, and still, no joy….

Radu said

on May 23rd, 2010,

at 23:04 hours

I don’t understand if you have a problem with Firefox or with other browsers… And I don’t do Windows.

Siddhartha Sen said

on May 27th, 2010,

at 22:08 hours

Radu it is fantastic.
Thanks ever so much.

Formingus said

on May 31st, 2010,

at 13:04 hours

Yahoo Toolbar was making that mass 4 me
thks 4 Infoo
Regards

neo said

on June 8th, 2010,

at 08:00 hours

It really works!! Awesome, thanks….

Egyption Mohamed said

on June 27th, 2010,

at 15:44 hours

thank u ……………

neverstock said

on July 27th, 2010,

at 02:32 hours

If you upgrade yahoo tool bar it will fix the no right click problem

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