317195 - Unable to enter text in search field

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Emanuel Ravelli]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051111 Firefox/1.5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051111 Firefox/1.5

Occasionally unable to enter text in search field of <www.versiontracker.com>
using Firefox 1.5.

1. Click into "Search" filed at top left of page.

2. The field doesn't accept any typed data.

3. Rebooting OS 10.4.3 eliminates the problem, but it does reappear after time.

Reproducible: Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Mouse into "Search" filed at top left of page.

2. The field doesn't accept any typed data.

3. Rebooting OS 10.4.3 eliminates the problem, but it does reappear after time.
Actual Results:  
Field won't accept any keyboard input.

Expected Results:  
Field should accept any keyboard input.

Comment 1

[Uri Bernstein]

Is the problem only in that specific search field or also elsewhere (URL bar, other web pages with forms)?

What keyboard layout are you using?

Comment 2

[Emanuel Ravelli]

>Is the problem only in that specific search field or also
>elsewhere (URL bar, other web pages with forms)?

Can't answer your specific-field question, but will let you know when it reoccurs.

I've seen this happen on the <http://www.hallmark.com> site, too.

Comment 3

[Emanuel Ravelli]

Missed the last question--sorry!

Macally ICEKey Keyboard:

  Version:	1.58
  Bus Power (mA):	200
  Speed:	Up to 12 Mb/sec
  Manufacturer:	Macally
  Product ID:	0x0005
  Vendor ID:	0x2222
  US QUERTY

Comment 4

[Uri Bernstein]

(In reply to comment #3)
> Missed the last question--sorry!
> 
> Macally ICEKey Keyboard:
> 
>   Version:      1.58
>   Bus Power (mA):       200
>   Speed:        Up to 12 Mb/sec
>   Manufacturer: Macally
>   Product ID:   0x0005
>   Vendor ID:    0x2222
>   US QUERTY
> 

Actually, I was asking about the keyboard *layout*, displayed in the input menu at the top right of the screen, if "Syestem Preferences > International > Input Menu > Show input menu in menu bar" is selected (examples of layouts are: U.S., Italian, Arabic, etc.).
I asked because there is a known problem with certain keyboard layouts stopping to work after visiting a page with Java (bug 313807). But from your answer, I understand that this is probably an unrelated problem.

Comment 5

[Emanuel Ravelli]

 > Actually, I was asking about the keyboard *layout*, displayed in the input menu
 > at the top right of the screen, if "Syestem Preferences > International > Input
 > Menu > Show input menu in menu bar" is selected (examples of layouts are: U.S.,
 > Italian, Arabic, etc.). I asked because there is a known problem with certain
 > keyboard layouts stopping to work after visiting a page with Java (bug 313807).

Aha! As you suspected, it's set as U.S.

Comment 6

[Jo Hermans]

another duplicate of bug 319747 ?

Comment 7

[Tyler Downer [He/Him]]

This is a mass search for bugs that are in the Firefox General component, are UNCO, and have not been changed for 1000 days and have an unspecified version. 

Reporter, can you please update to Firefox 3.6.10, create a fresh profile, http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/managing+profiles, and test again. If you still see the bug, please update this bug. If the issue is gone, please set the resolution to RESOLVED > WORKSFORME.

Comment 8

[Tyler Downer [He/Him]]

No reply from reporter, INCOMPLETE. Please retest with Firefox 3.6.12 or later and a new profile (http://support.mozilla.com/kb/Managing+profiles). If you continue to see this issue with the newest firefox and a new profile, then please comment on this bug.