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25 October 2007

Firefox question - does FF ever not allow you to type in input boxes? This happens to me somewhat often. It goes away if I wait or restart, but it's annoying. What's the deal?

post by: Hellbient at: 15:14 | 4 comments

Yes, it stops accepting text input in the address bar and search bar as well (or sometimes just ignores the return key). It's annoying, and I've seen it mentioned on Mefi once or twice, but never found any explanation or resolution in the Firefox bugs system or forums.

posted by matthewr 25 October | 16:15

Doesn't happen for me. Or maybe it does and I never noticed. I'm not very bright.

posted by dg 25 October | 17:36

It happens to me occasionally and is related to a specific web site though I can't remember which one now. One of the video servers.

posted by Mitheral 25 October | 21:18

Happens to me all the time. The usual culprit is Yahoo's application for keeping track of fantasy football scores. If that app is open all typing into any fields is futile. It sucks.

posted by terrapin 26 October | 14:18

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