295490 - Cursor frequently disappears in data entry fields on web sites, and text can't be entered

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: Keyboard Navigation, defect)

Description

[tgustafson]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4

Seemingly without warning, the cursor will be non-existent on web pages where I
am trying to enter text data in a field. There is no apparent pattern, and it
seems to occur on random web sites. Typing produces no response.  The only fix
is to re-boot Firefox

Reproducible: Couldn't Reproduce

Actual Results:  
Since the incident occurs randomly, I am unable to reproduce it deliberately.

Comment 1

[Martin Schultheiss]

Don't know if it's is related to this bug or if I should open a new one, but on
one of my Websites there is also no cursor, but I can enter text. The problem is
reproducable, to see it visit: 

http://www.martin-schultheiss.de/mozilla-bug/Kategorie.htm

You will get an IFrame in the middle of the page, but in both input-fields there
are no cursors when you click at them.

Please note that most of the page-content is nonfunctional since it is only a
snapshot part to show the problem, because the real page changes often.

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050801
Firefox/1.0.6

Comment 2

[Fabio Russo]

always open two bugs for two different issues :)
there is no clue for reproducing the first issue, while the second one works for
me. reporter, can you try with the latest beta?