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William Lord
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November 22, 2025
Question

Deselecting anything forces box selection on Firefox

  • November 22, 2025
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Using Firefox browser, any time I deselect an object in Figma (frames, images, etc), a gray box that says “paste” appears next to my cursor and moving the mouse automatically triggers a box-select (as if I were holding and dragging the mouse). I have to press Esc to make the “paste” box go away and click somewhere without selecting anything to make the box-select go away. This happens any time I deselect anything. This means that if I accidentally select something using the bug-induced box-select, it loops me back into the bug. It is hugely obtrusive to getting any work done.

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Sarvesh Kolte
New Member
November 29, 2025

I am facing this issue too. It is really annoying.

troxstudio
New Member
December 4, 2025

Same. Super annoying. 

Shishu
New Member
December 5, 2025

Hey! in case you are still facing this issue, I was able to get around it by setting dom.events.testing.asyncClipboard to true in firefox config. You can get to this page by entering about:config in your search bar. Hope it helps.