Text select and press-and-hold menu disabled in Fennec F-Droid

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A few days ago I noticed that Fennec F-Droid can no longer select text on web pages, and the press-and-hold menu is disabled. I think it started with version 150.0.0, released on 26/04/26. On sites that don’t disable Reader Mode, I can select and get a right-click menu while using that mode. So it’s not a problem with my device OS, it’s definitely something that’s changed in the app.

I noticed the same problem in LibreFox on Fedora Mate around the same time, with the same behaviour. No text select and disabled right-click menu, except in Reader Mode. So I strongly suspect it’s a problem with upstream Firefox version 150.0.0.

What’s the best way to get this fixed in Fennec?

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Do you have any extensions installed?

Selection menu does pop up for me on pages with and without reader mode available.

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Maybe you need to link to same example sites, many have some JS that blocks mouse/touch.

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I have uBlock Origin and NoScript, which I’ve used for years without issues, but I recently installed Third-Eye, which displays a list of all third-party domains websites are trying to load scripts from. I tried disabling that, and voila! The problem is fixed. Thank you!

I’ll investigate whether there’s a newer version I can somehow update to, and whether that fixes it. If not, I’ll report the problem to the Third-Eye developers.

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