Andrew, do you see this bug in both Firefox and Thunderbird? If, like me, you see it more frequently in Thunderbird, the following might help. I was also hit by this (unrelated?) bug in the upgrade. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=917027
Applying the fix for that bug seems to mitigate this bug a little, although it doesn't totally fix it. I still get this bug intermittently, but it *seems* to be less frequent. The fix is: Edit > Preferences > Advanced > General > Config Editor. Search for mail.compose.max_recycled_windows, double click it, and change the '1' to '0' in the 'Enter integer value' window that pops up. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to firefox in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1234470 Title: Keystrokes are hijacked by inactive window Status in The Mozilla Firefox Browser: New Status in “firefox” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Starting in a release from February, I've found that the front-most, active window often will occasionally not receive keystrokes. Instead they are being sent to the background, inactive window. The front-most window is shown as selected in the pager, while a non-selected window receives the keystrokes. I can alt-tab or click between windows, but cannot seem to type into one (or more) windows. Otherwise, clicking does all you expect it to. You can select menus of the window; you can even select text (although it's the "background window" grey instead of the "foreground window" blue). I tried to make sure that it was not an issue with X/KDE by testing to see what the reported active window was. First I found window IDs with xwininfo | grep -i 'window id' Then, when the bug occurred, I attempted to see if keystrokes were being passed to the active (but non-responsive) window with xev -id 0x123456 | grep Key I also did the same for the background window that was actually responding to the keystrokes. It seems that the active (but non- responsive) window was indeed receiving keystrokes, and the other one was not, although it was responding to them.. I presume that it's Firefox hijacking the active window internally. I don't see this in any other application, except much more frequently in Thunderbird. I've filed a bug for Thunderbird too. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/thunderbird/+bug/1234468 Here is a troubleshooting thread for this issue. http://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=111&t=110202 Here is the related thread for Thunderbird. https://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=111&t=117704 ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04 Package: firefox 24.0+build1-0ubuntu0.13.04.1 [modified: usr/share/applications/firefox.desktop] Uname: Linux 3.9.4-030904-generic x86_64 AddonCompatCheckDisabled: False ApportVersion: 2.9.2-0ubuntu8.3 Architecture: amd64 AudioDevicesInUse: USER PID ACCESS COMMAND /dev/snd/controlC0: lee 2493 F.... pulseaudio BuildID: 20130911155223 Channel: Unavailable Date: Thu Oct 3 11:14:42 2013 ForcedLayersAccel: False IfupdownConfig: # interfaces(5) file used by ifup(8) and ifdown(8) auto lo iface lo inet loopback InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-12-16 (290 days ago) InstallationMedia: Kubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Release amd64 (20121017.1) IpRoute: default via 192.168.2.1 dev wlan0 proto static 169.254.0.0/16 dev wlan0 scope link metric 1000 192.168.2.0/24 dev wlan0 proto kernel scope link src 192.168.2.2 metric 9 MarkForUpload: True MostRecentCrashID: bp-5270b043-7b09-48ed-b448-be4e92130427 PrefSources: prefs.js [Profile]/extensions/launchClipboard@alice/defaults/preferences/launchclipboard.js [Profile]/extensions/formhist...@yahoo.com/defaults/preferences/FhcPreferences.js [Profile]/extensions/donottrackp...@abine.com/defaults/preferences/prefs.js [Profile]/extensions/https-everywh...@eff.org/defaults/preferences/preferences.js Profiles: Profile0 (Default) - LastVersion=24.0/20130911155223 (In use) RelatedPackageVersions: google-talkplugin 4.7.0.0-1 adobe-flashplugin 11.2.202.310-0raring1 kopete 4:4.10.5+dfsg1-0ubuntu0.1 rhythmbox-mozilla 2.98-0ubuntu5 RunningIncompatibleAddons: False SourcePackage: firefox UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to raring on 2013-04-26 (159 days ago) dmi.bios.date: 09/07/2012 dmi.bios.vendor: Dell Inc. dmi.bios.version: A19 dmi.board.asset.tag: Base Board Asset Tag dmi.board.name: 0XN71K dmi.board.vendor: Dell Inc. dmi.board.version: FAB1 dmi.chassis.type: 8 dmi.chassis.vendor: Dell Inc. dmi.chassis.version: 0.1 dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnDellInc.:bvrA19:bd09/07/2012:svnDellInc.:pnDellSystemXPSL702X:pvr:rvnDellInc.:rn0XN71K:rvrFAB1:cvnDellInc.:ct8:cvr0.1: dmi.product.name: Dell System XPS L702X dmi.sys.vendor: Dell Inc. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/1234470/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
