301716 - IBM's "Download Director" Applet causes mozilla and firefox address bar to type text backwards.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 269973

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[John Bowers]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050716
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050716

This affects the latest stable build of Mozilla (Since I couldn't get the
nightly to start) as well as the latest stable build of Firefox (my firefox
agent string is: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.10)
Gecko/20050716 Firefox/1.0.6

The bug is: While IBM's download manager applet ("Download Director") is loading
(I haven't found any other applet that will do this, so you'll have to sign up
for a free account, unfortunately, to reproduce this bug) the mozilla and
firefox address bars write text backwards as you type into them. So if you typed
google.com you get moc.elgoog .

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Get an IBM username and password.
2. Follow the URL I gave above.
3. Login.
4. Under the "Rational Application Developer V6.0 Windows Full Evaluation Part 1
- REQUIRED. Contains core installation files - ESD extractor. Multilingual"
heading, click "I Agree" next to the "download using Download Director" option.
5. A new window opens to load the download director, go back to the main window
and type "www.google.com" into the mozilla and/or firefox address bar.
Actual Results:  
The address bar writes "moc.elgoog.www" to istelf. Once the applet finishes
loading, everything works fine again.

Expected Results:  
The address bar should read "www.google.com"

Comment 1

[Simon Montagu :smontagu]

This sounds like a dupe of bug 269973

Comment 2

[OstGote!]

Feel free to reopen if this is really a different problem.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 269973 ***