# Pipeline browser doesn't do anything

**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/pipeline-browser-doesnt-do-anything/10447
**Category:** ParaView Support
**Created:** [October 4, 2022, 11:35am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/pipeline-browser-doesnt-do-anything/10447 "2022-10-04T11:35:52Z")
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### Author: ![chrisvandijk](https://discourse.paraview.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/7ab992/32.png) [@chrisvandijk](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/chrisvandijk)
#### Post date: [October 4, 2022, 11:35am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/pipeline-browser-doesnt-do-anything/10447/1 "2022-10-04T11:35:52Z")

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Hi all,

I have been using ParaView to visualise the results of my Master’s Thesis for over half a year right now. This has always worked fine but for some reason my pipeline browser suddenly stopped working; I don’t know what caused this. This is quite inconvenient since I use it a lot. I can disable whether it is visible or not via the View menu, but of course this is an unsustainable soluation.

My ParaView screen looks like this:

 ![afbeelding](https://discourse.paraview.org/uploads/default/original/2X/6/62fe12891721d18ae1c8cf500338c50238f35dfa.png)

The pipeline browser appears outside the ‘Properties’ menu, which it did before. I cannot click on anything in the pipeline browser. If somebody could tell me how to fix this issue, this would help me a lot.

For your information, the data are generated via OpenFOAM 7 and 8. I’m running OF7/OF8 on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS via the Windows Subsystem for Linux. My PC is running on Windows 11. I’m opening ParaView via ‘paraFoam &’ or ‘paraFoam -builtin &’ (depending on the situation), both of which raise the issue. I have already tried uninstalling and reinstalling OF7, OF8 and ParaView but none of these solutions worked.

Thanks a lot in advance!

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### Author: ![mwestphal](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/mwestphal/32/17_2.png) [@mwestphal](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/mwestphal)
#### Post date: [October 4, 2022, 11:59am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/pipeline-browser-doesnt-do-anything/10447/2 "2022-10-04T11:59:40Z")

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Hi @chrisvandijk

Please update ParaView to the last released version.

Please press apply.

Best,