xfce moving firefox window when pointer is in the top menu bar?

gnumby443 · 2014-10-05 01:31:36

When I put the mouse pointer in the horizontal space to the right of the top menu bar ("File", "Edit", ...) in Firefox and press/hold the left mouse button, the mouse pointer changes to the grabbing icon that you would normally get if you pressed/held the left mouse button in the window's title bar, and as long as I keep the button down, the window moves around as though I'd pressed down in the title bar. I don't want it to do this, it's annoying as heck, if I wanted to move the window around the screen I'd put the pointer in the title bar, not in Firefox's menu bar. Has anybody else seen this behaviour? Thanks! Ubuntu 12.04LTS, Firefox 32.0.3, Xfce 4.8.

gnumby443 · 2014-10-05 01:39:17

Apparently this is a "feature" in Firefox. See:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+sour … bug/538838
Is there some workaround in Xfce for this "feature" for those of us who don't want this?

ToZ · 2014-10-05 03:31:03

The bug report that you referenced is quite old, its from 2010. I use Firefox 32.0.3 on Xfce 4.8 and I can't replicate this issue. Although, I usually hide my menu bar to save the screen real estate. It sounds like you installed Xfce on Ubuntu. Perhaps its an Ubuntu setting that is causing the effect? Something to do with their globalmenu?

gnumby443 · 2014-10-08 05:25:20

Removing the menu bar is something I didn't think of doing, a good workaround for the problem, thanks!
Yes, sorry, I forgot to say I'm running Xubuntu, not regular Ubuntu.

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