RE: Firefox URL Address Bar does not work under 8.1-RELEASE
BREAKTHROUGH!! -Original Message- From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd- questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Devin Teske Sent: Monday, May 09, 2011 12:22 PM To: Gautham Ganapathy Cc: FreeBSD Subject: Re: Firefox URL Address Bar does not work under 8.1-RELEASE On May 8, 2011, at 4:27 PM, Gautham Ganapathy gaut...@lisphacker.org wrote: On Sat, May 7, 2011 at 10:42 PM, Devin Teske dte...@vicor.com wrote: Hi list, I hope that you can offer some suggestions to help make some sense of this odd situation. The situation is that we install FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE onto standard Intel workstation hardware. We then add about 400 packages to the system. On top of that, we then add firefox. Everything works great in the system, even firefox ... that is until you try and use the address bar in Firefox to enter a URL. Pressing ENTER has no effect. Neither does clicking the green arrow to the right of the URL in the address bar. Meanwhile, requesting firefox to visit a URL via the command-line works just fine. Clicking through pages and navigating links also works fine. The entire system is functional with except to the URL address bar in Firefox. We then set up a second machine (also workstation-class hardware, though much newer). Same thing. System works superbly, with exception to firefox's address bar. Co-workers and I are scratching our head over why this is happening. We've tried both firefox-3.6 and firefox-3.5 from the FTP archives. We've always installed every dependency. Both browser versions have the same problem. Both machines have the same problem. Specifically speaking, we've tried these two packages: ftp://ftp-archive.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/8.1-RELEASE/p ackages/All/firefox-3.6.4,1.tbz ftp://ftp-archive.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/8.1-RELEASE/p ackages/All/firefox-3.5.10,1.tbz I had a similar problem under Windows sometime back after an upgrade. Resetting the profile worked for me. Try backing up your $HOME/.mozilla directory, deleting it and starting firefox afresh. That didn't help. :'( Someone also suggested resetting the toolbars. Also doesn't help -- though introduces a new buggette. If I go to View - Toolbars - Customize... in the menubar and simply click Done to dismiss the Customize Toolbar dialog, now the menubar in the main menu is grayed-out (every menu) and you cannot open any menus (you have to forcibly close the app and restart it to get your menubar back). Again, this is both firefox 3.5 and 3.6 from FTP, occurring on multiple machines running 8.1-RELEASE. We've also tried different window managers (and no window manager) to no avail. Even tried -safe-mode to reset everything ;'( Just now also noticed that the search bar also acts the same way as the location bar (enter does nothing and go button also does nothing). -- Devin Turns out that this rather odd behavior is reproduced by having an NFS-mounted $HOME directory. Executing something like the following allowed the browser to function properly: env HOME=/tmp firefox3 Is there any solution that could allow us to keep our home directories on NFS? We presume that there's a lock-file that can't be generated on our NFS server and that's what is causing our headache. -- Devin _ The information contained in this message is proprietary and/or confidential. If you are not the intended recipient, please: (i) delete the message and all copies; (ii) do not disclose, distribute or use the message in any manner; and (iii) notify the sender immediately. In addition, please be aware that any message addressed to our domain is subject to archiving and review by persons other than the intended recipient. Thank you. _ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Firefox URL Address Bar does not work under 8.1-RELEASE
Devin Teske dte...@vicor.com writes: Hi list, I hope that you can offer some suggestions to help make some sense of this odd situation. The situation is that we install FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE onto standard Intel workstation hardware. We then add about 400 packages to the system. On top of that, we then add firefox. Everything works great in the system, even firefox ... that is until you try and use the address bar in Firefox to enter a URL. Pressing ENTER has no effect. Neither does clicking the green arrow to the right of the URL in the address bar. Meanwhile, requesting firefox to visit a URL via the command-line works just fine. Clicking through pages and navigating links also works fine. The entire system is functional with except to the URL address bar in Firefox. We then set up a second machine (also workstation-class hardware, though much newer). Same thing. System works superbly, with exception to firefox's address bar. Co-workers and I are scratching our head over why this is happening. We've tried both firefox-3.6 and firefox-3.5 from the FTP archives. We've always installed every dependency. Both browser versions have the same problem. Both machines have the same problem. Specifically speaking, we've tried these two packages: ftp://ftp-archive.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/8.1-RELEASE/packages/All/firefox-3.6.4,1.tbz ftp://ftp-archive.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/8.1-RELEASE/packages/All/firefox-3.5.10,1.tbz I've never run into such a problem, but I can't reproduce the conditions under RELENG_8 and the latest (4.0.1) firefox port. If you can, try something more recent (so people like me have an easier time trying out the problem) or failing that, maybe try building the port on your own. If none of that works out, go directly to the port maintainers. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Firefox URL Address Bar does not work under 8.1-RELEASE
On Sat, May 7, 2011 at 10:42 PM, Devin Teske dte...@vicor.com wrote: Hi list, I hope that you can offer some suggestions to help make some sense of this odd situation. The situation is that we install FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE onto standard Intel workstation hardware. We then add about 400 packages to the system. On top of that, we then add firefox. Everything works great in the system, even firefox ... that is until you try and use the address bar in Firefox to enter a URL. Pressing ENTER has no effect. Neither does clicking the green arrow to the right of the URL in the address bar. Meanwhile, requesting firefox to visit a URL via the command-line works just fine. Clicking through pages and navigating links also works fine. The entire system is functional with except to the URL address bar in Firefox. We then set up a second machine (also workstation-class hardware, though much newer). Same thing. System works superbly, with exception to firefox's address bar. Co-workers and I are scratching our head over why this is happening. We've tried both firefox-3.6 and firefox-3.5 from the FTP archives. We've always installed every dependency. Both browser versions have the same problem. Both machines have the same problem. Specifically speaking, we've tried these two packages: ftp://ftp-archive.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/8.1-RELEASE/packages/All/firefox-3.6.4,1.tbz ftp://ftp-archive.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/8.1-RELEASE/packages/All/firefox-3.5.10,1.tbz -- Cheers, Devin Teske - CONTACT INFORMATION - Business Solutions Consultant II FIS - fisglobal.com 510-735-5650 Mobile 510-621-2038 Office 510-621-2020 Office Fax 909-477-4578 Home/Fax devin.te...@fisglobal.com I had a similar problem under Windows sometime back after an upgrade. Resetting the profile worked for me. Try backing up your $HOME/.mozilla directory, deleting it and starting firefox afresh. Someone also suggested resetting the toolbars. Gautham ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Firefox URL Address Bar does not work under 8.1-RELEASE
Hi list, I hope that you can offer some suggestions to help make some sense of this odd situation. The situation is that we install FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE onto standard Intel workstation hardware. We then add about 400 packages to the system. On top of that, we then add firefox. Everything works great in the system, even firefox ... that is until you try and use the address bar in Firefox to enter a URL. Pressing ENTER has no effect. Neither does clicking the green arrow to the right of the URL in the address bar. Meanwhile, requesting firefox to visit a URL via the command-line works just fine. Clicking through pages and navigating links also works fine. The entire system is functional with except to the URL address bar in Firefox. We then set up a second machine (also workstation-class hardware, though much newer). Same thing. System works superbly, with exception to firefox's address bar. Co-workers and I are scratching our head over why this is happening. We've tried both firefox-3.6 and firefox-3.5 from the FTP archives. We've always installed every dependency. Both browser versions have the same problem. Both machines have the same problem. Specifically speaking, we've tried these two packages: ftp://ftp-archive.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/8.1-RELEASE/packages/All/firefox-3.6.4,1.tbz ftp://ftp-archive.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/8.1-RELEASE/packages/All/firefox-3.5.10,1.tbz -- Cheers, Devin Teske - CONTACT INFORMATION - Business Solutions Consultant II FIS - fisglobal.com 510-735-5650 Mobile 510-621-2038 Office 510-621-2020 Office Fax 909-477-4578 Home/Fax devin.te...@fisglobal.com - LEGAL DISCLAIMER - This message contains confidential and proprietary information of the sender, and is intended only for the person(s) to whom it is addressed. Any use, distribution, copying or disclosure by any other person is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please notify the e-mail sender immediately, and delete the original message without making a copy. - END TRANSMISSION - _ The information contained in this message is proprietary and/or confidential. If you are not the intended recipient, please: (i) delete the message and all copies; (ii) do not disclose, distribute or use the message in any manner; and (iii) notify the sender immediately. In addition, please be aware that any message addressed to our domain is subject to archiving and review by persons other than the intended recipient. Thank you. _ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
