318987 - Sometimes typing acts like broken bidi mode

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Jerry Quinn]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051111 Firefox/1.5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051111 Firefox/1.5

On my son's win2k machine, firefox will sometimes get into a strange mode where typing pushes chars to the right as if in a bidi locale, and then after a bunch, some will go on the left.  Delete and backspace are similarly confused.  Fixing requires killing firefox and restarting.

Occurs in 1.0.x as well as 1.5.

It isn't predictably reproducible, but happens on the order of once or twice a day.


Reproducible: Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1

[[e-mail]]

Related to bug 338842 ?

Comment 2

[Jerry Quinn]

(In reply to comment #1)
> Related to bug 338842 ?
 
It does sound like it could be the same bug.  It's my son's computer and he gets very frustrated by it.

Comment 3

[[e-mail]]

Jerry - sadly this bug has been lying around for a while, your reported Firefox version(s) are too old a build to analyse bugs against now. The problem you are reporting may well have been fixed already.

Could you please download a recent version <http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/> or nightly build from <http://www.mozilla.org/developer/#builds>, and then let us know if you still see this problem?

In particular try setting up a new profile to see whether this is at all extension or configuration related, for more information http://kb.mozillazine.org/Creating_a_new_Firefox_profile_on_Windows

Many thanks, Cigno

Comment 4

[Tyler Downer [He/Him]]

This bug was reported on Firefox 2.x or older, which is no longer supported and will not be receiving any more updates. I strongly suggest that you update to Firefox 3.6.3 or later, update your plugins (flash, adobe, etc.), and retest in a new profile. If you still see the issue with the updated Firefox, please post here. Otherwise, please close as RESOLVED > WORKSFORME
http://www.mozilla.com
http://support.mozilla.com/kb/Managing+profiles
http://support.mozilla.com/kb/Safe+mode

Comment 5

[Tyler Downer [He/Him]]

No reply, INCOMPLETE. Please retest with Firefox 3.6.x 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.

Comment 6

[Jerry Quinn]

You might as well close this.  The target machine is long gone and we've long since upgraded to newer versions and not seen the problem.