433487 - Location bar sometimes becomes non-responsive

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 376084

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Andrew Conkling]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9b5) Gecko/2008032620 Firefox/3.0b5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9b5) Gecko/2008032620 Firefox/3.0b5

I'm sorry I don't have any steps to reproduce this problem, but it's been happening to me intermittently since at least Firefox 2. After using my browser for a time (typically with 6-12 tabs open) my location bar will become unusable. I can type there, I get frecency hits when I search for something, but either clicking on the Go button or pressing Enter does nothing. The only solution I've been able to use is to restart Firefox.

Reproducible: Couldn't Reproduce

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I try to use as few extensions as possible. Currently, I'm using Adblock Plus and Delicious Bookmarks.

Comment 1

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9pre) Gecko/2008051210 Minefield/3.0pre

I don't recognize this problem. Are there plugins like Java or Flash used on the problematic sites? Do your bookmarks and history links still work when you experience the problem?

Comment 2

[Andrew Conkling]

(In reply to comment #1)
> I don't recognize this problem. Are there plugins like Java or Flash used on
> the problematic sites? Do your bookmarks and history links still work when you
> experience the problem?

Sorry, I should've been more specific. When the problem happens, it happens across all tabs and doesn't appear to be site-specific. (The sites I generally keep open, Meebo and Gmail/Google Reader don't have any Java or Flash content.)

My "workaround" when I don't want to restart Firefox has been to search for content/a link via the search bar at the upper right and then just navigate my Google results to get where I need to go. External links from email and such still work also.

I *do* visit sites with Flash content, and we have an intranet site that uses Java controls. Could the problem be related to those, even when no sites are loaded at the time of the problem happening? Any way I could check reproducibility?

Comment 3

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

The plugins can only cause trouble when a sites are using them.
Does it also happen with a new profile and a clean installation in a new empty folder? First delete the installation folder manually, so that there are no leftovers from the previous Firefox.
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Creating_a_new_Firefox_profile_on_Windows

Comment 4

[Andrew Conkling]

Especially since I had the same problem on Linux at home, I'm inclined to think this is related to the Delicious extension. There was a recent message thread on their mailing list that mentioned the problem: http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/delicious-firefox-extension/message/2380.

I'm leaving this open as I continue to test with a new profile and (sadly ;) with the Delicious extension disabled, but if you're confident it's the extension, Ria, feel free to close this sooner.

Comment 6

[Bramus]

Workaround I found is to open a new window ... in that new window the location bar works fine (yet the original window still has an inoperable location bar)

Comment 7

[Andrew Conkling]

(In reply to comment #6)
> Workaround I found is to open a new window ... in that new window the location
> bar works fine (yet the original window still has an inoperable location bar)

Oh, good, I'll try that workaround when I get the problem.

Have you tried a new profile as mentioned in comment #3? For me, it seems to be related to the Delicious extension.

Ria, is there any way to debug the extension to find out what it's doing or what's happening when the location bar breaks?