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[James <775229@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I am having a similar issue.  I can't reproduce it using Alex's steps;
it seems to happen pretty much at random (though CTRL+ALT+ARROW seems to
be a good way of starting and stopping the problem).  For me, the menus
do appear if I hold the mouse down for long enough, maybe half a second,
but then disappear as soon as I move the mouse off the menu button (so
it is impossible to click on a menu item).  At the same time as this
issue occurs, autoscroll starts behaving strangely - if I middle click,
then move my mouse off the autoscroll icon, then move it back, the icon
disappears and autoscrolling stops.

I am running Ubuntu 11.10 amd64 on a Dell Studio 1558, and have firefox
7.0.1 from the repositories, and the issue occurs in normal and safe
mode.  I am clicking using my touchpad's buttons (I have touchpad
tapping disabled) and I have removed the firefox-globalmenu package
because of #748850.

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Title:
  Context menus are unstable

Status in One Hundred Paper Cuts:
  Confirmed
Status in “firefox” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: firefox

  Sometimes, and arbitrarily, context menus will appear, but as soon as I hover my mouse over them, they disappear. This happens on and off, and restarting Firefox fixes it (for a while). When I'm having this problem, clicking on any folders on the Bookmarks Toolbar does not show the menu. I can still browse the menus using the keyboard arrows.
  Menus affected: right click on the page, right click anywhere on the toolbar, the search provider menu, bookmarks toolbar menus.

  Installed software:
  Ubuntu 11.04.
  Firefox 4.0.1+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.11.04.1
  firefox-globalmenu 4.0.1+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.11.04.1
  firefox-gnome-support 4.0.1+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.11.04.1

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
  Package: firefox 4.0.1+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.11.04.1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-8.42-generic 2.6.38.2
  Uname: Linux 2.6.38-8-generic x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Sun May  1 20:29:00 2011
  FirefoxPackages:
   firefox 4.0.1+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.11.04.1
   flashplugin-installer 10.2.159.1ubuntu1
   adobe-flashplugin N/A
   icedtea-plugin N/A
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release amd64 (20110427.1)
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=en_US:en
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: firefox
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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