508463 - Awesome Bar Stops Working after Surfing for a While

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 507269

(Firefox :: Address Bar, defect)

Description

[cb474]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.1) Gecko/20090718 Firefox/2.0.0.11
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.1) Gecko/20090718 Firefox/2.0.0.11

I regularly have the experience with 3.5.1 that the awesome bar just stops working after a while. That is, I type in the address bar and I get no drop down suggestions. If I close firefox and restart it the awesome bar starts working again. I never had this problem with 3.0.x. I'm not really sure what causes this to happen.

Reproducible: Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Surf around for a while.


Actual Results:  
Awesome bar stops working, more often than not.

Expected Results:  
Awesome bar continues to work.

Comment 1

[Dave Garrett]

Sounds like a broken extension. Give this a try:
http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Troubleshooting+extensions+and+themes

Also, I suggest you fix your user agent. It's saying you have Gecko 1.9.1.1 (Firefox 3.5.1) in Firefox 2.0.0.11. You may have set something a while ago and left it that way. You can go to about:config via entering it into the address bar, entering useragent into the filter bar, then right-click->reset on anything that's bold. Probably not related to this issue, however.

Comment 2

[cb474]

Thanks for the tip about my user agent. I reset it. And thanks for the thoughts about extension problems. I'll try to troubleshoot that and see if it solves the problem.

Comment 3

[Will Roberts [:bws42]]

this is probably a dupe of bug 507269

Comment 4

[Shawn Wilsher :sdwilsh]

(In reply to comment #3)
> this is probably a dupe of bug 507269
Yes, it is!