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Re: issues with FF 86 / 87

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On 4/7/21 3:17 PM, this is what Eli the Bearded wrote:
> On my $WORK computer, I've been letting Ubuntu autoupdate Firefox
> regularly. Starting with Firefox 86 I started to notice some issues.
> 
> In Firefox 86, at least as packaged for Ubuntu 18.04LTS, when running
> with two or more windows, mouse clicks and scrolling events sometimes
> go to the wrong window. This almost entirely happens just after
> changing window focus between two Firefox windows, but I think I've
> seen it with xterm to Firefox focus switch too. The second window
> can be a private one or a regular one.
> 
> In Firefox 87, the window focus thing is not fixed, and I started to
> run into other odd behavior. In particular while app.slack.com worked
> for me initially, it eventually stopped working. The whole UI froze,
> the reload button did nothing, and upon closing the tab and trying to
> reload it in a new tab, I got a blank page.
> 
> I've downgraded to FF84 and everything works again, but the downgrade
> was a painful process. Profiles are versioned now, and FF84 refuses to
> touch a FF86 or FF87 profile, so I lost all my extensions, preferences,
> and bookmarks in the downgrade.
> 
> Questions:
> 
> Has anyone else observed the window event problem in Firefox 86/87?
> 
> Has anyone else had Slack stop working with Firefox 86/87?
> 
> Are there automatic profile backups I can enable to make any future
> downgrade need less painful? (If there are not, I can create one
> myself, but I'd rather something more seamless.)
> 
> This is the most trouble a Firefox update has given me in a long time.
> 
> Elijah
> ------
> started out with Firefox when it was called Phoenix
> 
I'm on 88 and see no issues.

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issues with FF 86 / 87 Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> - 2021-04-07 19:17 +0000
  Re: issues with FF 86 / 87 "Alex Plantema" <alex@nl.invalid> - 2021-05-11 15:36 +0200
    Re: issues with FF 86 / 87 Wolf K <wolfmac@sympatico.ca> - 2021-05-11 10:20 -0400
      Re: issues with FF 86 / 87 Stan Brown <the_stan_brown@fastmail.fm> - 2021-05-11 07:29 -0700
        Re: issues with FF 86 / 87 Wolf K <wolfmac@sympatico.ca> - 2021-05-11 11:05 -0400
          Re: issues with FF 86 / 87 "Dirk T. Verbeek" <dverbeek@xs4all.nl> - 2021-05-12 12:21 +0200
      Re: issues with FF 86 / 87 Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> - 2021-05-11 18:58 +0000
  Re: issues with FF 86 / 87 Teddy-Bears <Bears@invalid.com> - 2021-05-11 12:34 -0400

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