Clicking on Ghostery Icon Opens About Dialogue (Instead of list of blocked items)

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When I click on the Ghostery icon in the status bar it keeps opening the about dialogue (on most pages, but not all), even though I don't want it. I have to click and hold down on the Ghostery icon to see what's beeing blocked. But still, I soon as I release the mouse button, the about dialogue immediately opens and I have to close it. Older versions of Ghostery did not do this. It's very annoying. I'm on version 2.7.2

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Pete (Senior Communications Manager) June 20, 2012 13:10

Hi cb474,

This is not a feature :-) do you have any other add-ons installed?

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Hi cb474, This is not a feature :-) do you have any other add-ons installed?

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cb474 June 20, 2012 19:17

I already tried disabling all other add-ons, except Ghostery, and restarting Firefox with only Ghostery running. I still get the problem.

Looking more closely, what I see happening, is that the menu showing blocked items pops up for a split second and then immediately disappears and the About dialogue opens, as if I've instantly selected "About Ghostery" even though I have not.

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- Felix Shnir June 20, 2012 23:57
  
  Hi cb, thanks for using Ghostery.
  
  We had similar results reported on some of the Ubuntu installations. What OS are you running and have you tried 2.8beta2? You may install it from here: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/fire...
  
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- cb474 June 23, 2012 00:25
  
  I using LMDE (which is essentially Debian linux). I also see this behavior in Fuduntu (which is based on Fedora). So two very different types of Linux.
  
  Ghostery 2.8beta2 does not solve the problem.
  
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- cb474 June 23, 2012 00:40
  
  I take that back. 2.8beta2 does solve the problem, if I disable Adblock Plus. So the conflict seems to be with Adblock. Although after disabling and then reenabling some of the blocked items on the Engadget website, the conflict went away for that site only. I don't understand it, since I renabled all the filters that I disabled, but the fix stuck. However other sites, like the NY Times, still show the problem.
  
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- Felix Shnir June 24, 2012 05:06
  
  This is very odd as ABP should have no relation to the XUL menu you are looking at. I'll investigate, thanks for bringing this up.
  
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- cb474 June 25, 2012 02:07
  
  Thanks for looking into it. As I said above, I'm seeing this on two different Linux systems, one Debian based and the other Fedora based. So it doesn't seem like an idiosyncratic quirk on my system. And it appeared at the same time (must have been after one of the recent Ghostery updates).
  
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I already tried disabling all other add-ons, except Ghostery, and restarting Firefox with only Ghostery running. I still get the problem. Looking more closely, what I see happening, is that the menu showing blocked items pops up for a split second and then immediately disappears and the About dialogue opens, as if I've instantly selected "About Ghostery" even though I have not.

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