I'll go one better. Before I even attempted to report this to you, I uninstalled Firefox completely and reinstalled.
Once it was reinstalled and the problem appeared to be in the application, I uninstalled again, went through and deleted all mozilla and firefox related folders in my home folder, /etc, /usr/lib and /root folders. Then went through and verified that there was no /usr/share/firefox or related folder on my machine. And just to be sure things weren't "cached" in memory, I rebooted the box into recovery mode, reverified everything, then rebooted back to the GUI. Once the box was rebooted, I did the following from an xterm: # sudo apt-get install firefox After this was completed I rebooted again Then launched Firefox (again from the xterm so I could see any error messages). The problem continued to exist. There were no error messages. Pages I attempted to visit: http://www.google.com http://www.cnn.com http://www.wikipedia.com During page loading, the "Stop" icon never activated. Once each page was loaded I either clicked a link or manually typed another page into the address bar. Again, the "Stop" icon never activated Once the second page was loaded, the "Back" button never activated. I used the History menu to move backwards to the first page. When on the first page, the "Forward" menu button never activated. -- Firefox 3.0 Menu Buttons disabled https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/292474 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs