Re: Netscape

[carlf@panix.com (Carl Fink)]

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On 27 Aug 99 20:28:24 GMT Ryan Chouinard <SystemOveride@fnmail.com> wrote:
>"Keith G. Murphy" wrote:
>>
>> Here's a question: does anyone's NS handle large combo boxes in HTML
>> forms correctly?  Whenever I need to select an item off a very large
>> combo box (like states in an online order form: multiple popup windows
>> created), my keyboard stops working, at least within NS.  This has been
>> consistent over different Window Managers and versions of NS.
>
>I have experienced this as well.  Only thing I can do about it is fill in the text
>boxes, then go back and to the combo boxes, and restart netscape when I'm done.
>This gets annoying, but it's all I can find to do about it...

I find if you iconify Netscape and restore it, the keyboard works again.

Why?  I have no idea.

Netscape also dies if I click on a Mailto: link.
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Carl Fink		carlf@dm.net
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