235245 - When a page loads browser starts "find as you type" thingy

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Lars Petersen]

User-Agent:       
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7a) Gecko/20040220 Firefox/0.8.0+ (scragz)

On any page - the bigger the better - I noticed it on http://boomtown.net/da_dk/
when the page loads, the "Find as you type"-feature is activated when the page
loads - the statusbar reads "Find stopped." and "Link not found: '?'" etc, and
the sound that the browser makes when "find as you type" is heard.
All of this several times during load/rendering of the page...
AFAIK it appeared after 2004-02-13 (last good build I have where this is not an
issue)...

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Just load a big page like http://boomtown.net/da_dk/
Actual Results:  
"Find as you type"-feature is activated automatically during rendering...

Expected Results:  
Just load/render.

Comment 1

[Wayne Woods]

Hi Lars, I can't reproduce this bug, 20040218 Firefox/0.8.0+, WinXP.

A few possibilities:

- Do you have any browser extensions installed? If so, try disabling them and
see if that fixes it.
or:
- Do you have any browser themes installed (other than the one that comes
packaged with Firefox)?  If so, try disabling them and see if that fixes it.
or:
- It's possible your user profile has been corrupted between versions. Please
try starting Firefox with a fresh profile: either trash your old profile
(temporarily at least), or start the profile manager (see:
http://texturizer.net/firebird/faq.html#profilemanager). Your user profile is
likely to be found in C:\Documents and Settings\<your user name>\Application
Data\Phoenix\

Please let us know whether or not any of those things fix it.

cheers

Comment 2

[Lars Petersen]

Sorry about that! It seems that was the case, or at least trashing the old
profile did the trick... If I want to keep my certificates and my stored
passwords, what should I copy over from the old profile? I got the
bookmarks.html, cookies.txt and my user.js, what else do I need?

Thanks! :) lars

Comment 3

[Wayne Woods]

Glad that fixed it.

I'm afraid I don't know which files store the info you require. The cert*.db
files look important, but I'm not sure what else.

Sorry I can't be more help. I'm just a user, not a programmer :)