1535318 - pressing Enter in the URL bar does not do anything, nor clicking the green arrow

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: Address Bar, defect)

Description

[csongor]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64; rv:65.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/65.0

Steps to reproduce:

I typed a URL or a search phrase into the URL bar and pressd Enter.

Actual results:

Nothing happened.

Expected results:

The web page described by the URL should be displayed OR the phrase should be searhed for by Google.

Comment 1

[csongor]

If I opened a new tab and typed the URL or the search phrase into the Google form (placeholder="Search the Web") then it was handled as a search phrase and google was searching for it.

That is, I don't have connection issues. The problem is that the URL bar is not sensitive for the Enter key and for clicking the green arrow icon at the end of the URL bar either.

Comment 2

[csongor]

Deleting all addons did not solve the problem but using a new profile did solve it. However, I wanted to keep my profile so discarding the old one was not an option.

I started to drill down to the roots. I backed up both C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla and C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\Mozilla and tried to delete some parts of the folders. It turned out that it is enough to remove only one file from the profile and then everything gets fixed. The culprit file was C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\1z58j0ig.default\chrome\css\locationbar\ac_popup_item_title_hidden.css.

I attach the file that caused issues. I am not sure if it is enough to regenerate the bug in other environments, maybe other files from the profile are also needed. If you need it for fixing then please, let me know.

I had been suffering with this issue for a very long time and it is very annoying. The strange thing is that for a period, enabling or disabling random addons solved the problem temporarily but later on it came back. After a while the problem remained, despite deleting all the addons.

The file itself looks correct to me, I mean, it is a valid css file. I don't know why it causes the problem or what made the file wrong but if it happens to somebody else then they also will suffer a lot.

Comment 3

[csongor]

Attachment: ac_popup_classic_with_two_lines.css

Comment 4

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

This file is apparently a userChrome.css hack, that you likely added time ago and forgot about it.
userChrome hacks can change the aspect and behavior of the Firefox UI, but they can also cause problems when Firefox updates if you also don't update them. They are tolerated, but not officially supported by us (because it's more the likelihood they create problems than benefits).
If you don't remember why you have those files, I'd suggest to remove all of them (the whole chrome/ folder is not necessary and not part of an official Firefox profile).
If you need help with userChrome hacks, you can refer to third party forums like https://www.reddit.com/r/FirefoxCSS/