Right click not working in Firefox 3.5

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Saturday, July 4th 2009, 14:20
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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.

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  • Courtney July 15th, 2009 at 04:21

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

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  • Anjoe July 16th, 2009 at 21:10

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

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    • Radu July 16th, 2009 at 22:45

      Glad that I could offer a good tip!

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  • Falcon July 21st, 2009 at 14:02

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

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  • Right click not working in Firefox 3.5 | Petra Gregorová July 23rd, 2009 at 19:54

    [...] 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 [...]

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  • Numo July 26th, 2009 at 10:31

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

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    • Radu July 26th, 2009 at 12:04

      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!

      Reply
  • Ted August 3rd, 2009 at 19:24

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

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  • Shugo August 6th, 2009 at 19:59

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

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  • arfeen August 7th, 2009 at 15:27

    thanks man … it really helped …!!!

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  • Karla August 12th, 2009 at 01:38

    Thank you soooo much.

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  • Proxy August 17th, 2009 at 20:54

    Thanks man.
    It solved my problem ;)
    Cheers

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