219459 - Keyboard fails to respond under different circumstances. One workaround found.

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Core :: DOM: UI Events & Focus Handling, defect)

Description

[Lars Bahner]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5b) Gecko/20030915 Firebird/0.6.1+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5b) Gecko/20030915 Firebird/0.6.1+

Often, that is: every session, the keyboard "hangs" in Firebird. This *seems* to
be related to AutoComplete, but it is impossible to tell. I have tried for weeks
to find some common denominator to bring to you, but, alas, I have failed.

For example. Just the two last times I began to write www.netcraft.com in the
URL-address field. The first time it hung at "www.netc" the second time (to see
if I could reproduce it for this form) it hung on "www.n". 

The bug might just as well occur in forms. I have been running nightly builds
for some time, but a friend of mine, who does *not* use nightly builds stated
that "ah, this happens a lot for me too".

He uses suse, I use Debian.

I am very sorry that I am not able to give more information, but feel free to
ask me for anything you would like me to do in order to help.

Reproducible: Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[Lars Bahner]

Ah, I forgot some additional information. When typing "www.netc", I tried to use
the mouse to open up the completion menu, io. to get a page to load. I clicked
on "www.debian.org", but nothing happened. Then I used the back button to get
back to the previous page and then pulled down the autocompletion menu, clicked
"www.debian.org". The page loaded and the keyboard worked again, as I am now
writing to you :)

Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This bug has been automatically resolved after a period of inactivity (see above
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