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.”
Thanks for the post. I have been having the same problem and thought I was crazy. Its nice to know its a known problem.
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.
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.
There is a [unofficial] fix!
http://www.iammike.org/index.php?subaction=showfull&id=1195149099&archive=&start_from=&ucat=2&
[…] 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: […]
I’m having the same problem myself – and for a while Firefox was crashing but that has seemed to stop
major major major bug !!! Ive already had major online communications issues due to this issue!
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?
nice solution thanks for the post if i couldnt find this information i would be mad. Working for hours to fix it 😀
i am glad to see this solution here .. there is a clear documantation how to fix it … Thanks
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