183166 - impossible to enter new url without using open web url menu option

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 82534

(SeaMonkey :: Location Bar, defect)

Description

[ruthger]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.22; Mac_PowerPC)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.2) Gecko/20021126

It's impossible to enter a new url without using "open web url"-option. Even though this 
might be a feature, I just think it's a bug because it makes the browser harder to use.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. open mozilla
2. try to place marker in url bar
3. try to write something in url bar

Actual Results:  
nothing. cannot type any url

Expected Results:  
opened a url

I'm using MacOS X 10.2.2

Comment 1

[R.K.Aa.]

Dup of bug 82534

Is the theme you use compatible with 1.2?

An OS-X user in bug 82534 writes "I can get the caret to reappear by hitting
"home" and then back."

I've also seen a similar thing on Linux, and could use "enter" in urlbar again
after first right-clicking in it to trigger the context-menu.
The equivalent on a Mac may be "ctrl-click" or similar? Please tell if it works.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 82534 ***

Comment 2

[R.K.Aa.]

Reporter mailed:
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It does work, but it shouldn't be necessary. The theme is the one that comes
with mozilla. Sorry for duplicating but I couldn't find it, and it seemed
like noone had reported it since it has stayed this way through Netscape 7 -
Mozilla 1.2.1.