On Thu, 13 Mar 2003 12:40:51 -0800 "Martin J. Hillyer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm having an irritating problem with Mozilla. After what appears to > be a random length of time (often very short, eg, after one entry), it > stops accepting typing in, for example, the address box, or in a > google text input area. I have to kill that instance and start > another to get it to accept typed input. Clicking on links still > works normally. Does anyone have any ideas? > > I've thought that perhaps I'd remove a config file and let it > reconfigure, but I don't see any obvious rc files - 'locate mozillarc' > only gives /etc/mozilla/mozillarc, which has only one line. Nothing > obvious pops out from my ~/.mozilla directory - there's a binary file > in there called appreg, and two folders - /fonts, and > /<my_logon_name>; the latter only has the rather mysteriously named > folder /b3nzixf2.slt, which has lots of stuff relating to bookmarks, > cookies, etc, but nothing seems to stand out as possibly corrupted. > Nothing I've looked for in Google has turned up any clues, so I'm > turning to the list... > > I'm running testing, kernel 2.4.20, X 4.2.1 with an Athlon XP1500+, > 512 MB RAM and an nVidia GeForce2/MX-400 64MB video card. I have been > bitten by the AMD-AGP issue, but this seems to be pretty much under > control with the 2.4.20 kernel (it was a problem through 2.4.18). > > Please hold suggestions that I use a different browser; I know that > (and I've used various), but I would like to get this Mozilla problem > fixed because I like its many features (popups, cookie and login > management, eg). > > Thanks for any ideas... > -- > Martin Hillyer > >
Specifically, when this happens to me I just switch to another window, click somewhere in there and switch back, after which my input is unlocked or whatever. This is a work-around but I personally think ppl could work a *little* faster at getting new moz versions into testing (coz the old ones have various issues) grtz, Wim -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
