Thunderbird inadvertent drag & drop triggered

[Jim Byrnes]

On 06/21/2012 08:00 PM, NoOp wrote:
> On 06/20/2012 08:50 AM, Jim Byrnes wrote:
>> Running Ubuntu 10.04 and Thunderbird 13.x
>>
>> Since upgrading to the 13 series of Thunderbird I have been seeing this
>> strange problem.  When reading newsgroup messages the pointer will
>> sometimes change to a hand with a document attached to it.  It looks
>> like a drag & drop operations was triggered somehow, but when that
>> happens the mouse is unusable.  The pointer moves but clicking or double
>> clicking with either button does nothing.  The only solution seems to be
>> ctrl-alt-del and then use the keyboard to restart Ubuntu.
>>
>> It seems to happen when I am clicking to open a different newsgroup.
>>
>> I wonder if anyone else is seeing this?
> ...
>
> Welcome to the fray...
> <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=736811>
> [Mouse occasionally changes to drag cursor and the mouse buttons stop
> functioning]
>
> I just tested with 14.0b3:
> Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:14.0) Gecko/20120619 Thunderbird/14.0
> <https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/all-beta.html>
> and 'workaround' patch works like it does in SeaMonkey 2.11.2b2. You
> will still get the D&D cursor when selecting a Subject. However when you
> click the message Subject again the cursor will revert to normal & you
> shouldn't have any further problems with it during your session.
>
> Gary
>

Thanks for the heads up.  It doesn't happen often and it seemed so 
random I was never sure what I did to trigger it.

Regards,  Jim