I am having a very strange problem. The story is a little long. But, necessary to describe all of the steps taken to identify and try and solve the problem.
Several days ago my Logitech G7 mouse started freezing momentarily in what seemed to be a random fashion. This is a wireless mouse, and occasionally if someone on the WiFi is using a lot of bandwidth it will interfere with the mouse's operation. I can remedy this by moving the mouse closer to the transmitter, or just waiting for them to finish. I didn't pay too much attention to this. But, later, when no one else was using the net, it started doing this again. I spent about an hour trying to figure out who was pulling bandwidth off my router, and eventually satisfied myself this was not the cause. Of course, I spent all kinds of time checking internal and external IP connections, etc. to no avail. Finally, I did the logical thing and simply switched off the access point. The problem persisted. This sent me to phase 2. I first suspected something on my system was pulling a lot of CPU cycles, and simply bogging things down. I verified this was not likely the case by using various performance monitors including Microsoft Process Explorer - a very nice tool, I might add. I then started suspecting a driver or hardware error. I updated the drivers and rebooted. The system seemed to start working OK - for a while. Then, the problem reoccurred. Next was hardware. I like this mouse. So, I have a backup. I swapped it out. Rebooted, with a power off to clear everything, and it again started working. Fixed, I thought. Nope. After a while, it stopped working again. I was scratching my head. Then, I started retracing my steps since the reboot. I use SeaMonkey almost exclusively - have since the beginning, and occasionally Opera. I never use IE, unless a website persistently requires it and I can't get a User Agent to fake it out. So, bottom line, I am pretty familiar with Sea Monkey. I noticed earlier that there was a problem with Google search. When I click the search button, it takes me to the Google home page, as it should. When I start typing, using their current scripts, it should switch to another screen with the searches at the top, and start immediately listing fully qualified search results below, dynamically adjusted as you type. It does switch to the new page, the results are listed as suggestions just below the text entry box - it's talking to Google. But, nothing is generated below. There are no links. The "I feel Lucky" link, in the same line also does nothing. If you close SeaMonkey at this point and restart it, the correct page, with all links, is displayed until you start typing in the search box again. The reason I mention this is that if you play around with this effort for a little while, trying the get the search to work, that is what causes the mouse to start it's behavior. Once it starts, it continues randomly, even of you close Sea Monkey. You have to reboot to clear the problem. This is very strange. I suspected a Java bug, possibly uncovered by a change in the page's scripts. So, I updated Java. Nope. I started suspecting root kits, malware, viruses, etc. I am extremely careful with such things. I don't do email on this computer at all, and avoid all but trusted sites, generally. I also run a number of anti-such things tools which are pretty good. Still, in today's world, these things can slip up on you. I checked the system with every possible tool and didn't find anything. I even went so far as to externally monitor the connections the computer was making when I played with Google and verified all of the links it was establishing were normal. I have a old version of Sea Monkey co-installed in another directory to preserve some of my old links, etc. which couldn't be easily migrated. I tested this version and it works perfectly. Opera and IE also work. This seems to rule out a hidden root kit or some kind of camouflaged hosts file redirect to a malicious site - That is unless it has found a way to hook SeaMonkey, this install, uniquely and persistently. But, if it has, as I mentioned above, it's not establishing, or trying to establish, any strange connections. Now the really strange part... If I log into my Google account everything starts working perfectly, as it should. If I log out, or restart SeaMonkey the problem reoccurs immediately. I rolled back to version 2.9 and the same problem exists there. Sorry for the long post. But, I have looked at this thing pretty exhaustively and can't figure our what's up. I can work around by logging in. But, why does this help? The mouse issue is also strange. Any ideas? _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
