270874 - In Outlook Web Access, typing is not allowed when composing new or reply mail.

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Sam Parsons]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.22; Mac_PowerPC)
Build Identifier: Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

I'm not sure if YOU can duplicate this problem, but it happens on both my 
desktop G4/733/OSX 10.2.8, and my PowerBook G4/1.5GHz/OSX 10.3.x. When using 
Outlook Web Access (which works fine in IE and pretty well in Safari) with my 
new download (11/16/04-desktop; 11/18/04-PowerBook) of Firefox 1.0, reading 
email messages is fine--and fast! But when I try to reply/forward to a message, 
or when I try to create a new message, I am unable to enter text. I get a 
blinking cursor wherever I click, but text does not appear when I type. Un 
fortunately, this happens about HALF the time, and works properly the rest of 
the time. A given email session can produce both results, so it seems to be an 
intermittent problem. 
I like the speed of Firefox and want to use it as my main browser, but I can't 
if this problem persists.
Thank you.

Reproducible: Sometimes
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open Outlook Web Access page: https://webmail.saclink.csus.edu/exchange/
2. Enter login/password
3. Reply to random email message

Actual Results:  
Hmm. Well, I tried it this afternoon on both computers and couldn't reproduce 
the problem. However, it has happened several times in the past three days on 
both machines.

Expected Results:  
Allow text input.

Comment 1

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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