Triple-click in my Firefox might be broken.

March 9, 2006 8:30 PM

Triple-click in my Firefox might be broken.

IIRC, triple click in Firefox used to select at least a line in the body of the page (maybe more), and it used to select the entire URL (when I aimed appropriately).

None of this happens now. Single-, double-, triple, quadruple-clicks select only one word.

I am not using any extensions, I run 1.5.01. The problem persists if I run the latest nightly build.

Ideas?

posted by Kwantsar to Computers & Internet (9 answers total)

works fine for me
posted by Joseph Gurl at 8:39 PM on March 9, 2006

I didn't know about this feature, but I'm also on 1.5.0.1 and it works great for me. Sorry you are having troubles, but thanks for letting me know about this.
posted by ewagoner at 8:40 PM on March 9, 2006

Isn't this more a function of the OS than of a specific app?
posted by pmbuko at 8:44 PM on March 9, 2006

Response by poster: Oh, pmbuko, neglected to mention:

Thinkpad T40, XP Pro, Triple-click works fine in Word, etc....
posted by Kwantsar at 8:48 PM on March 9, 2006

New profile? That usually fixes stuff for me.
posted by smackfu at 8:51 PM on March 9, 2006

the synaptics drivers for the thinkpad touchpad could have gotten udpated or reset somehow and are intercepting/modifying the triple-click somehow. try disabling the utility?
posted by kcm at 9:03 PM on March 9, 2006

Maybe the driver (as above) think multiple clicks like that are just confused double clicks?
posted by MadamM at 9:31 PM on March 9, 2006

Best answer: Someone on Usenet had this same problem and fixed it by reinstalling Firefox.
posted by Neiltupper at 9:27 AM on March 10, 2006

Response by poster: Drivers were fine (as evidenced by the functionality in Word) but a reinstall of Firefox did the trick. Now I have to slowly change my about:config settings back to the way I liked them one at a time while taking notes.
posted by Kwantsar at 9:42 PM on March 12, 2006