Left mouse click stops working in Firefox

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Left mouse click stops working in Firefox

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I have a problem where my left mouse button suddenly stops working in Firefox. I haven't noticed it happening in any other applications, but I can't absolutely guarantee that only Firefox is affected. I usually notice this when switching between some of the 10 to 12 pinned tabs that I usually have open. I click on a new tab and nothing happens.

When the problem occurs I just need to right click and everything starts working again. When this happened just now I tried switching tabs and nothing happened so instead of right clicking on the target tab I right clicked on a link in the current tab and Firefox immediately switched to the tab I had tried to select, as though the left click had been stored up somewhere but not yet acted on.

The only change I can think of that I have made to Firefox recently was to install Hola unblocker. I could try deinstalling this again to see if the problem goes away, but does anyone have any other suggestions I could try?
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Re: Left mouse click stops working in Firefox

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Instead of uninstalling it, you might disable it temporarily to see if that makes a difference.
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I've uninstalled it for now. It's easy enough to reinstall if I want it back later
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Did it solve the problem?
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I don't know yet, it was only happening 2 or 3 times a day.
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Sadly the problem is still there.
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Ouch. Have you tried disabling all add-ins? See Troubleshoot Firefox issues using Safe Mode.
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I've disabled all remaining addons. I can manage without Adblock Plus for a while, but I'm going to miss the RoboForm Toolbar. Let's see what happens.
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My problem didn't occur for 24 hours, so I have now reenabled the RoboForm toolbar.
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It worked flawlessly for another 2 days, so I'm going to re-enable ad-block plus
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