Address bar and tabs not clickable after running Firefox for some time

[lcfreitasf]

As per title. Randomly, after some time, the address bar and tabs no longer respond to clicks. You have to close the browser and open again. It keeps happening though. I don't know if this is related, but this never happened before and started happening some time after the most recent update.

118.0.1 (64 bit) - OS Ubuntu 20.04

[maidlinux]

Same issue:

As mention by previous comments looks like is Wayland related, as Firefox is unable to track if a tab was detached or so.

Reproducible under:

• Fedora 42
• GNOME 48 ( Wayland )

As a workaround you can just simply drag ( detach )  any tab from the frozen Firefox session, then attach it again to to browser.

Hopefully this will be fix soon

[ChenMeng]

139.0.4 still same bug, move a tab fix this temporarily.

www-client/firefox-bin, Gentoo, KDE Plasma 6.3.5 Wayland

[jaanjah]

Having same issue here.

139.0.1 (64-bit) Firefox for NixOS

[p4tchw0rk]

I have the same issue on fedora 42

[RileyMeta]

What extensions are you guys running? I'm running Ublock-Origin, looks like a few others are too...

[Rares]

 Also affected. Dragging the window around doesn't help but restarting firefox does.

I'm on Ubuntu 22.04, default firefox install that comes with Ubuntu, ThinkBook ThinkBook 16 G7 IML.
Is this an Intel iGPU issue? I never ran into this problem on an AMD system, or on a system with an nvidia dGPU. I have an Intel Ultra 7 155H.

[Maxw]

Just posting saying I have been having the same issue on a recent Pop! OS install. - Bookmarks bar remaining interactive with mouseovers and clicking available, however everything in the address bar row becomes unresponsive, and I'm able to close tabs with middle click.

OS: Pop!_OS 22.04 LTS x86_64
Host: MS-7B89 1.0
Kernel: 6.12.10-76061203-generic

Firefox Browser 140.0.4 (64-bit)
No change with or without running extensions
Also occurs in private browsing windows
Only appears to affect an individual window of Firefox, as I've been freely able to use a different Firefox window with it's own set of tabs with no issue, whilst having another window and its own set of tabs having the issue.

[KettLovahr]

Been having this issue for a few months, NixOS. The tab rearranging seems to work.

[seriosbrad]

For what it's worth, you don't actually need to re-arrange a tab completely, you can just nudge one of them enough to move slightly which is enough to fix it.  Either way this is super annoying.

[MotionIII]

This exact bug just happened to me except I'm on Windows 11, which is very confusing because everyone on this thread seems to be on Linux.

[seriosbrad]

Oh yeah, I can also confirm it happens on Windows 11.

[Sirvaleen]

Same since a few days and on Windows 10 here. Thanks to the guy with the tab-moving fix !

[Rares]

Idk what to tell you guys, but for me the bug stopped happening. It's been like a week since it last happened.

[Jersey]

Started happening to me in version 142.0

[BirdApparatus]

This started happening to me with 142.0 as well. I'm on Windows 10 and use Dark Reader, uBlock Origin, and Privacy Badger.

[asdasdasdasdas]

nearly 2 years later and this still isn't fixed btw, I just migrated to Mozilla from Chrome and this issue is INFURIATING.

A small fix is just to just un-tab them and then re-tab (drag the tab out of the list of tabs into its own window, then drag it back) but this only works sometimes.

And another small fix I found for this is to CTRL + B to hide bookmarks then CTRL + B to bring them back, seems to fix it as well.

[dchcs]

Started getting this issue on Firefox 142.0 and Firefox Developer Edition 143.0b3 on different Windows 11 computers.

[jd5]

click on + sign for "new tab" and select all tabs but left that "new tab" and drag down side, your that selected window with multi tab will be free and clickable each on addressbar

[jd5]

Solve 2025:

click on + sign for "new tab" and select all tabs but left that "new tab" and drag down side, your that selected window with multi tab will be free and clickable each on addressbar

[Sushi1808]

I have the same issue with Firefox 142.0 on Windows 11, re-arranging the tabs seems to work.

[jd5]

click on + sign for "new tab" and select all tabs but left that "new tab" and drag down side, your that selected window with multi tab will be free and clickable each on addressbar

[Kaoruko]

I'm getting a slightly different version of this issue, running firefox 143 on kubuntu 24.04 LTS. I get the frozen address bar and uncloseable tabs, but I'm also unable to re-arrange my tabs at all, and trying to do breaks the tab to the point that only restarting the browser will fix it.

[doomnonius]

I am having the exact same problem, Firefox 143.0.4 (and 144), Ubuntu 24.04, KDE, Wayland. Moving tabs around just makes the tab I tried to move uninteractable, and if I try to move a bunch of tabs they also start stacking on top of each other and on top of tabs that still work, and the only solution is to restart the window. I usually have a couple windows open, and when the problem starts it happens in both windows, and if I just restart one window it'll immediately happen again. Usually when I restart both windows the problem doesn't occur again immediately.

[Kaoruko]

Yes I get the issue with the tabs stacking bizarrely too. I find it happens most often if I try to click into firefox from another window and immediately move a tab, but it still happens while directly using firefox as well.