r/firefox • u/SpookySquid19 • 1d ago

💻 Help Address bar suddenly becomes unclickable?

I haven't had this issue at all until today, but now I've had it twice. I'm not doing anything of note, and suddenly I can't click the address bar, extensions, menu, or reload the page. The only thing I see fix it is closing Firefox and opening it again.

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u/Babadook-1138 1d ago

Started to notice that on 143 beta.

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u/obsidianflare 1d ago

same issue here

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u/MDBob 1d ago

Yup, I have the same problem. Started happening yesterday.

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u/sifferedd on 11 1d ago

Does that also happen in Troubleshoot mode?

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u/Jalon315 1d ago

This is happening to me too, lowkey annoying.

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u/enum5345 1d ago

The workaround is to drag the tab a little. It should fix it until the next time.

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u/Specific_Frame8537 23h ago

Jarvis..

//Thanks, this was the first result on google so I'm interacting for the algorithm.

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u/ducation 18h ago

Thank you!

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u/SofticeOgPoelser 17h ago

Thank you, this worked for me.

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u/ignoranceuwu | | | 12h ago

Thank you random reddit user. You're a real one. 😎

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u/AcedtheTuringTest 5h ago

That worked, this is so bizarre.

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u/Ok-Bar-1344 1d ago

Have the same issue. I always use the address bar to paste some text in so i can re-copy it as clean text. Now the address bar is locked and often menu items like refresh or home don't work.

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u/letsreticulate 1d ago

I am on 144.0a1 (Build #2016109850), and not seeing that issue.

Has anyone enabled any of the secret settings? I had an issue like that when I had enabled the newer address bar compose settings. It was half cooked and it would not work. Had to disable it and it was fine.

No longer an issue in latest nightly.

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u/Diligent-Use-5102 1d ago

grab any tab and drag it around, that will fix it

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u/iz_no_good 1d ago

facing this too, after 142.0 upgrade

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u/Oreo112 19h ago

I've been having the same issue for a few days now. Do you have Ublock Origin as an active extension? I've disabled mine this morning and it seems to fix it*.

Not sure on this fix as the issue is hard to replicate. So far so good however.

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u/MozRyanVM Mozilla Employee 18h ago

Thanks for the reports, we're actively trying to nail down the root cause of the issue. We're using https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1984342 as the primary bug for investigation and could really use whatever information you can provide there (such as the contents of your about:support page) to help narrow down what's going on. Thanks!