Lately when using Firefox the mouse no longer works and no links or tabs can be selected. The only way to get the mouse to work is to switch windows with ctrl+tab

The mouse is completely unavailable, not even able to select anything on the taskbar or start button.
When this started happening I had to restart firefox, then I tried opening the task manager to see if anything was hogging resources and I found simply opening the task manager freed up the mouse, then I found simply using alt+tab to switch windows did it, then I discovered using alt+tab to cycle through the available windows straight back to firefox does it.

See "Hang at exit":
*http://kb.mozillazine.org/Firefox_hangs
See "Firefox hangs when you quit it":
*https://support.mozilla.org/kb/Firefox+hangs

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''FredMcD [[#answer-718738|said]]''
<blockquote>
''ajfollack [[#answer-718681|said]]''
<blockquote>
Disabling the adobe plugin . . . . did not resolve issue
</blockquote>
DO NOT disable old program. REMOVE them.
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</blockquote>
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