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Ubuntu 12.04 LTS: USN-1463-2 Moderate: Unity 2D Firefox Menu Issue

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Calendar Grey June 15, 2012
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Unity 2D upgrade fixes contextual menu glitch in Firefox across multiple Ubuntu iterations effortlessly.
Popup menus were not working in Firefox under Unity 2D.

Summary

Popup menus were not working in Firefox under Unity 2D.

Software Description:

- unity-2d: Unity interface for non-accelerated graphics cards

Details:

USN-1463-1 fixed vulnerabilities in Firefox. The Firefox update exposed a

bug in Unity 2D which resulted in Firefox being unable to obtain pointer

grabs in order to open popup menus. This update fixes the problem.

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate system update firefox ubuntu unity popup fault

Update Instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following
package versions:

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS:
  unity-2d-panel                  5.12.0-0ubuntu1.1

Ubuntu 11.10:
  unity-2d-panel                  4.12.0-0ubuntu1.2

Ubuntu 11.04:
  unity-2d-panel                  3.8.4.1-0ubuntu1.1

After a standard system update you need to restart your Unity 2D session to
make all the necessary changes.

References

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-1463-2

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-1463-1

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity-2d/+bug/1010466

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June 15, 2012

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate system update firefox ubuntu unity popup fault

Package Information

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity-2d/5.12.0-0ubuntu1.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity-2d/4.12.0-0ubuntu1.2
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity-2d/3.8.4.1-0ubuntu1.1

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