This is a very recent thing I’ve had happening, presumably since an update. I will often have multiple FF windows open. In one of the windows, I’ll suddenly not be able to place my cursor in the address bar on any tab. But other FF windows function fine. I have to close that window and start a new instance or drag a tab from a working window to another screen, then that will work fine for an unpredictable time.

I have no idea what specific thing I might be doing that touches this off, as far as I can tell I’m just browsing. I thought maybe I had a child dialog opening in a hidden window, but it must be hidden pretty good because I can’t find it if I do.

Fedora Linux 42 KDE

Firefox 139.0

    • nfreak@lemmy.mlEnglish
      3·
      1 day ago

      This one’s super annoying, I’m glad the tab thing actually fixes it for a bit because I was completely killing my browser every time before I learned about that.

      Hope this fix goes live soon

    • ikidd@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      6·
      2 days ago

      Grabbing the tab resets the bug from what I see. Thanks, that saves the trouble of losing a window’s worth of tabs.

  • RotatingParts@lemmy.mlEnglish
    6·
    3 days ago

    Something I think is related is that after some time, I can’t click the x on a tab to close it, but I can do middle click (L & R at the same time) to close a tab. When this happens, I also can’t get into the address bar. Just started seeing this with the last update (currently on 139.0.1) snap version.

    • chonkyninja@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      2 days ago

      This fucking bug is not new, and not special to KDE. It’s because there’s missing documentation in a lib just above Wayland, so it only affects some apps that aren’t using a higher level toolkit, Firefox is in that box. The bug is literally 8 years old and would literally require one fucking line of code to fix, but the cunts over at freedesktop refuse to merge the changes. If I were at my main computer I’d send you the link and details.

      One thing that sometimes fixes it, is the menu key next to the spacebar.

    • FauxLiving@lemmy.world
      1·
      3 days ago

      I have the same problem on 139.0.1, restarting the whole browser session will fix it but it is very annoying.

    • ikidd@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      1·
      3 days ago

      Can’t say I’ve tried to close with the X, I always use middle-click, but I’ll see if that tracks.

  • xylol@leminal.space
    6·
    3 days ago

    I’ve had that happen also, I was trying to close some tabs but they wouldn’t close, opening a new window and moving the tabs over made everything work again

    I’m on bazzite

  • Lucki@feddit.org
    2·
    2 days ago

    If this happens after closing a tab: Search the direct tab to the left of the previously closed one and open it.

    I noticed similar behaviour when the tab to the left isn’t loaded at closing time. It also affects all other websites being unresponsive.

  • Nednarb44@lemmy.world
    3·
    3 days ago

    Ive definitely had it too. Its fixed my just clicking and dragging the tab over, but it’s still pretty frustrating.

    • ikidd@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      3·
      2 days ago

      F6 does get you into the address bar and you can type, but only on that tab and if you take the focus off, it’s still glitched. It doesn’t reset the bug like grabbing the tab and moving it will for the entire window. But still sorta helps.