Closed Bug 314276 Opened 20 years ago Closed 16 years ago

While typing in firefox, cursor will place a character and not advance

Categories

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Product:
Firefox
Component:
General
Platform:
x86
Windows Server 2003
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

People

(Reporter: jml44, Unassigned)

Details

(Whiteboard: [closeme 2010-02-01])

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.2; en-US; rv:1.7b) Gecko/20040421 Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.2; en-US; rv:1.7b) Gecko/20040421 When typing in firefox in any number of situations (gmail, address bar, google search bar to the right of the address bar, in forms) the cursor won't advance but will place a character. I.E. typing "hello" will become "elloh" because it will place the "h" AFTER the cursor and then continue typing from there. MAKES FIREFOX UNUSABLE! Reproducible: Always
Maybe the same problem as bug 314560?
(In reply to comment #0) > User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.2; en-US; rv:1.7b) > Gecko/20040421 > Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.2; en-US; rv:1.7b) > Gecko/20040421 > > When typing in firefox in any number of situations (gmail, address bar, google > search bar to the right of the address bar, in forms) the cursor won't advance > but will place a character. I.E. typing "hello" will become "elloh" because it > will place the "h" AFTER the cursor and then continue typing from there. MAKES > FIREFOX UNUSABLE! > > Reproducible: Always > Also seen on Windows 2000 Professional, latest service packs and updates. Typically happens after use of Flash-based web sites.
it starts typing after i open another program and then close it.
When I have running a (sun java)pushed web side beside a an other instance or tab side of Firefox, then the cursor has a the described problem while editing in an edit control. Sometimes the cursor does not iincrement its position!!!
"hello" actually showed up as "olleh". This persisted in all text boxes (including new tabs and new Firefox instances) until I closed all Firefox windows and then killed the firefox.exe process through the (Windows XP) task manager. Using Firefox 1.0.6
My parents have been telling me they have this problem however, I haven't noticed it before. I'm the only user in my household who doesn't have that problem however, i'm the only administrator on all machines. I think this problem may occour. All these computers are running Windows XP SP2
Confirmed: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.3) Gecko/20060426 Firefox/1.5.0.3 Seems to be new to this build. Occurs in address bar, search box, and text areas. Closing Firefox and restarting seems to eliminate it temporarily.
(In reply to comment #0) > User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.2; en-US; rv:1.7b) > Gecko/20040421 > Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.2; en-US; rv:1.7b) > Gecko/20040421 > > When typing in firefox in any number of situations (gmail, address bar, google > search bar to the right of the address bar, in forms) the cursor won't advance > but will place a character. I.E. typing "hello" will become "elloh" because it > will place the "h" AFTER the cursor and then continue typing from there. MAKES > FIREFOX UNUSABLE! > > Reproducible: Always > I have the same problem. It is like the "insert"-key is pushed randomly (on average about once every twenty or so key-strokes) for a single key stroke, while you are typing. To make clear what I mean, I will repeat the sentece I have just wrtitten, actually I see the thing happening all ready with the "n" out of the word sentnce, and the e from th from the same word s well as the e from the and the a from as.aeen As yo can see all letters wre pushed forward as in this sentence the u and the e. eu All chaacters can be pushed forward including spaces etc.r I purposely left the mistakes from this bug in te message to mke clear what is happening.ah For the record: this is NOT the same problem as in bug 314560 (see comment 1) I first blamed the keyboard but it is only happenng in Firefox.i
(In reply to comment #1) > Maybe the same problem as bug 314560? > (In reply to comment #1) > Maybe the same problem as bug 314560? > This is not the same as bug 314560
(In reply to comment #4) > When I have running a (sun java)pushed web side beside a an other instance or > tab side of Firefox, then the cursor has a the described problem while editing > in an edit control. Sometimes the cursor does not iincrement its position!!! > Indeed the problem occurs only when I have a particular other website running in another tab-window. (I do not know if that is (sun)-java pushed).
I have the same problem, but it only seem to happen when i try to reply to a email in gmail.
I have the same problem. Words are typed backwards in the search bar or the search bar of the particular website I am at.
What can I do about this???
"The sme hinappentoe sl.lew am sh gta" >>> Wondering what the above text is.. >>> It's "The same thing happens for me as well." >>> I had to type this comment in a notepad and copy paste here..
Why is the status unconfirmed, even after having these many instances? [again this i typed in notepad :( ]
I've also experienced this problem off and on since at least Firefox 1.5. Since I upgraded to Firefox 3 (3.0.1) it is much worse. This occurs in the location bar, search bar and in text boxes. It doesn't always advance the cursor, but it doesn't always completely stop either. The faster I type, the less likely it is to advance the cursor before inserting the next character. This instance it happened to start on a page that was running a java applet (on a local intranet page). If I leave that page up, it seems to happen more often. CPU usage is not spiked though. Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.1) Gecko/2008070208 Firefox/3.0.1 "The same thing hs for me as well."neppa
I too have this same problem. Typing emails, filling forms out, typing in addresses. Anywhere I have to type. Doesn't seem to be a particular website that causes it, but I do have a standard set of tabs open while browsing (hotmail, gmail, facebook)
I solved this problem by updating the BIOS of my machine.
do you see this in a a freshly started FF 3.5.x in safe mode ? https://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Safe+Mode xref bug 302784 (suspect reporter is gone)
Severity: critical → normal
Whiteboard: [closeme 2010-02-01]
Closing as incomplete. Should the information be added this can be reopened.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 16 years ago
Resolution: --- → INCOMPLETE
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