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FireFox Drop-Down Menus Broken After Leopard Upgrade

November 6th, 2007 · 9 Comments

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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9 responses so far ↓

  • 1 Eric // Nov 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.

  • 2 Steve // Nov 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.

  • 3 Simon // Nov 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.

  • 4 Mike // Nov 15, 2007 at 7:02 am

    There is a [unofficial] fix!

    http://www.iammike.org/index.php?subaction=showfull&id=1195149099&archive=&start_from=&ucat=2&

  • 5 Firefox drop-down/select menu Leopard bug - MacNN Forums // Nov 16, 2007 at 7:08 am

    [...] looks like this is a known issue in Firefox: Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.9 Release Notes FireFox Drop-Down Menus Broken After Leopard Upgrade As a fix, you can either install one of the test builds: [...]

  • 6 Julia // Nov 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

  • 7 mike // Nov 16, 2007 at 2:28 pm

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

  • 8 berner // Dec 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?

  • 9 telsiz // Mar 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

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