FireFox Drop-Down Menus Broken After Leopard Upgrade

November 6, 2007

I upgraded to Mac OS X Leopard last week and have been struggling with various “issues” that have come up. The latest involves Firefox. I’ve already come across two web sites that use drop-down menus; however, the menus don’t drop. Who wants to browse through a menu by hitting the up arrow / down arrow and viewing one item at a time? Back to Safari for those sites.

The Firefox release notes said, “On OS X 10.5 (Leopard), drop-down selection widgets on some websites may not function.”

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November 16, 2007 at 7:08 am

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Eric November 12, 2007 at 12:18 pm

Thanks for the post. I have been having the same problem and thought I was crazy. Its nice to know its a known problem.

Steve November 13, 2007 at 6:21 am

thank god someone else is dealing with this…like Eric, i too, thought i was going a little crazy.

Hopefully someone is working on it. I’ll dig around – see if i can find something.

Simon November 14, 2007 at 12:07 pm

This is a major headache for Wordpress users, because safari doesn’t play nice with the Wordpress admin section, but now Firefox doesn’t either.

Mike November 15, 2007 at 7:02 am
Julia November 16, 2007 at 1:58 pm

I’m having the same problem myself – and for a while Firefox was crashing but that has seemed to stop

mike November 16, 2007 at 2:28 pm

major major major bug !!! Ive already had major online communications issues due to this issue!

berner December 1, 2007 at 3:08 am

New Problem!

On leapard first time I opened firefox it said it wanted to connect to some strange location (cant remember what) and I accidental pressed “deny forever” instead of “until quit” or “allow forever ”
Now nothing works in fireworks, no matter what website or search in google I make the page stays blank. It is not even searching.?? I tried to quit and throw everything about firefox in the trash, and I mean everything I know of, like ….Library/applicationsupport/firefox , cache/firefox, profiles etc.. and basically anything to do with firefox. I downloaded it again, reinstalled and restarted my mac , but still nothing….. ? What did I do wrong? How can I get firefox back to work?

telsiz March 31, 2008 at 5:24 am

nice solution thanks for the post if i couldnt find this information i would be mad. Working for hours to fix it :D

antakya June 9, 2008 at 8:41 am

i am glad to see this solution here .. there is a clear documantation how to fix it … Thanks

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