On Sun, 8 Aug 2010 19:06:39 -0400 Ted Unangst <ted.unan...@gmail.com>
wrote:
>
> On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 6:44 PM, Stuart Henderson
> <s...@spacehopper.org> wrote:
> > On 2010/08/08 18:28, Ted Unangst wrote:
> >> switched to trying to use firefox 3.6 with my latest snap upgrade
> >> and I've noticed a bug. __The address bar has a tendency to stop
> >> responding to key presses until I click in it again. __I can type a
> >> few letters, it will auto suggest something, I get in maybe one
> >> more letter, and then it's stuck. __Neither keys nor backspace have
> >> any effect. __If I click in the address bar, it wakes up and I can
> >> type some more letters.
> >
> > you probably need to clean your sqlite files, firefox doesn't
> > maintain them well itself.
> >
> > http://www.firefoxfacts.com/2009/08/25/clean-your-sqlite-databases-to-speed-up-firefox/
> >
>
> I will leave out the long stream of "that's ridiculous" commentary I
> found myself muttering at every point in the sequence of events that
> begin after clicking on that link and say just a few things.
>
> 1. thanks.
> 2. didn't help. i even manually vacuumed all the dbs i could find,
> no effect.
> 3. whacking the .mozilla directory did appear to resolve it, so it
> may be a more or less local problem.
>
Though you've "fixed" it by deleting the profile/config dir, you might
want to know there's a "Location Bar" setting under Edit->Preferences on
the "Privacy" tab/part. Also, some plugins make a mess of the displayed
type-in suggestions (as well as track them), particularly special search
engine plugins (google).
jcr
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