On Wed, 2 Apr 2003, Kevin J. Maciunas wrote: > On Tue, 2003-04-01 at 20:41, fcrozat wrote: > > After using mozilla for a time and using tabs, I loose the ability to be able to > > type anything in the boxes (address bar or text boxes, such as the one I am > > filling in now). > > > > The only fix has been to close and restart mozilla > > I have observed this with Galeon too. It seems to be a 'focus' issue - > I can re-gain the ability to "type in the boxes" by simply removing > focus (click on root window), then click in the box - brings focus back > properly. > > Incidentally, while in the "I refuse to listen to you" state, I can get > things into the boxes by X cut-n-paste - it just doesn't like the > keyboard. > > This *is* really annoying! > > I'm a Gnome user, can't tell if it happens under KDE.
It does. Additionally, it also sometimes affects (for me): -typing in the address bar -typing in the search field in messenger Sometimes restarting one component helps. I also wonder if it has to do with amount of free memory, since it almost never occurs with less than 1 hour use of mozilla. Regards, Buchan -- |----------------Registered Linux User #182071-----------------| Buchan Milne Mechanical Engineer, Network Manager Cellphone * Work +27 82 472 2231 * +27 21 8828820x121 Stellenbosch Automotive Engineering http://www.cae.co.za GPG Key http://ranger.dnsalias.com/bgmilne.asc 1024D/60D204A7 2919 E232 5610 A038 87B1 72D6 AC92 BA50 60D2 04A7
