204705 - mozilla freezes indefinitely upon attempting to modify a text entry box

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 198345

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[James Maddison]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4a) Gecko/20030401
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4a) Gecko/20030401

When trying to enter an address into the address bar, or even entering an option
(such as which home page to use) into a text entry box, mozilla freezes
indefinitely before even displaying the result of any input.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install SuSE 8.1
2. Install the mozilla 1.0.1 rpm from the SuSE distribution CD
3. Uninstall the mozilla 1.0.1 rpm from the SuSE distribution CD
4. Install mozilla from the afformentioned URL and try to enter text into a text
entry widget
Actual Results:  
Mozilla freezes indefinitely.

Expected Results:  
Accept the text entry and allowed me to continue typing the text.

Theme: All themes
CPU: AMD-K6-III
OS: Linux
Distro: SuSE 8.1
Kernel: 2.4.18 (stock kernel)

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

no blocker (first report= doesn't block development)

Have you tried a new profile ?

Comment 2

[Andrew Schultz]

please try disabling find-as-you-type (edit->preferences->advanced->keybord
nav).  see bug 198345

Comment 3

[James Maddison]

Disabling find-as-you-type has no effect.

Additionaly none of these attempted solutions work either:

Creating a new profile

Deleting all the plugins within /usr/local/mozilla/plugins,

rm -rf $HOME/.mozilla
So that mozilla must use a clean configuration.

Comment 4

[James Maddison]

Scratch that, I had to go into .mozilla/blah/prefs

and edit pref.js manually to set

user_pref("accessibility.typeaheadfind.autostart", false);

as mozilla was hanging instead of closing down cleanly, which means that setting
wasn't being saved. No mozilla works fine (although with no type ahead).

Comment 5

[Andrew Schultz]

ok.  marking dupe

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 198345 ***