Nelson Bolyard <[email protected]> wrote: > Ever hear of these symptoms? Know of any cures? > > SM2 (latest version as of about 2 months ago) on an Intel Mac Mini > running > Leopard is behaving VERY STRANGELY. Left clicks on buttons, menu > items, > and certain other UI features that ought to cause actions, often cause > a > pop-up menu to be displayed, in addition to whatever action they're > supposed to take. If one is not careful to move the mouse out of the > menu > before releasing it, one ends up performing unintended actions, > which may have very undesirable consequences. > > Example: in SM's mail window, EVERY time the "Get Msgs" Icon is > clicked, > a menu appears offering some choices, the first of which is to > customize > a toolbar. File -> Get New Messages gets new messages and brings up > some > other menu which must be carefully dismissed. > > This has made SM2 unusable for my elderly relative. After struggling > with > that unwanted menus for some time, the entire bar of icons including > "Get > Msgs" icon disappeared, and I have no idea how she can get it back. > Now her SM2 is effectively non-functional for email. > > This is a brand new OS/X install on a clean disk with SM2 and almost > no > extensions or plugins (quicktime, Adobe PDF reader). It has an Apple > two-button "mighty mouse", and the buttons were configured properly > (right > mouse separate from left mouse, buttons not reversed) recently. > She's being careful to left-click. > > Any ideas gratefully received.
Do you have direct access to the machine? If so, have you checked System Preferences to be sure that the mouse preferences have not become garbled? Is this only happening in SeaMonkey? You might try having her reboot the machine, which might clear something. It doesn't sound like a SeaMonkey issue, rather something. In the OS. Lee _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
