Re: Mozilla stops accepting typed input
On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 12:40:51PM -0800, Martin J. Hillyer wrote:
> I'm having an irritating problem with Mozilla. After what appears to
> be a random length of time (often very short, eg, after one entry), it
> stops accepting typing in, for example, the address box, or in a
> google text input area. I have to kill that instance and start
> another to get it to accept typed input. Clicking on links still
> works normally. Does anyone have any ideas?
>
> I've thought that perhaps I'd remove a config file and let it
> reconfigure, but I don't see any obvious rc files - 'locate mozillarc'
> only gives /etc/mozilla/mozillarc, which has only one line. Nothing
> obvious pops out from my ~/.mozilla directory - there's a binary file
> in there called appreg, and two folders - /fonts, and
> /<my_logon_name>; the latter only has the rather mysteriously named
> folder /b3nzixf2.slt, which has lots of stuff relating to bookmarks,
> cookies, etc, but nothing seems to stand out as possibly corrupted.
> Nothing I've looked for in Google has turned up any clues, so I'm
> turning to the list...
>
> I'm running testing, kernel 2.4.20, X 4.2.1 with an Athlon XP1500+,
> 512 MB RAM and an nVidia GeForce2/MX-400 64MB video card. I have been
> bitten by the AMD-AGP issue, but this seems to be pretty much under
> control with the 2.4.20 kernel (it was a problem through 2.4.18).
>
> Please hold suggestions that I use a different browser; I know that
> (and I've used various), but I would like to get this Mozilla problem
> fixed because I like its many features (popups, cookie and login
> management, eg).
Well, I think you've just found another "feature" :-)
Recent builds (can't remember how long ago it started) of Mozilla have
included a "type-ahead" feature, roughly translating to the "find-next"
feature in, say, lynx. It's loaded with the same key too - "/" - and I
haven't personally found a way of telling Mozilla (Galeon, really)
forget that it's in type-ahead mode.
For now, I find lots of pressing of "/", <Enter>, and other keys can
flick it out of type-ahead.
HTH,
jc
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