Date: Mon, 9 May 2011 12:22:23 -0700 From: Devin Teske <dteske@vicor.com> To: Gautham Ganapathy <gautham@lisphacker.org> Cc: FreeBSD <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Firefox URL Address Bar does not work under 8.1-RELEASE Message-ID: <E63D6D92-7DA5-4DD3-8771-2BD6BFEB5AF1@vicor.com> In-Reply-To: <BANLkTikTFz4xeENVazPHFPe35Ykf=6KiJA@mail.gmail.com> References: <4ABF6511-5BF2-4E70-A148-1CD9CE4B0937@vicor.com> <BANLkTikTFz4xeENVazPHFPe35Ykf=6KiJA@mail.gmail.com>
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On May 8, 2011, at 4:27 PM, Gautham Ganapathy <gautham@lisphacker.org> wrot= e: > On Sat, May 7, 2011 at 10:42 PM, Devin Teske <dteske@vicor.com> wrote: >> Hi list, >>=20 >> I hope that you can offer some suggestions to help make some sense of th= is 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. >>=20 >> 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 comm= and-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. >>=20 >> 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. >>=20 >> Co-workers and I are scratching our head over why this is happening. >>=20 >> We've tried both firefox-3.6 and firefox-3.5 from the FTP archives. We'v= e always installed every dependency. Both browser versions have the same pr= oblem. Both machines have the same problem. >>=20 >> Specifically speaking, we've tried these two packages: >>=20 >> ftp://ftp-archive.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/8.1-RELEASE/pack= ages/All/firefox-3.6.4,1.tbz >> ftp://ftp-archive.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/8.1-RELEASE/pack= ages/All/firefox-3.5.10,1.tbz >> -- >> Cheers, >> Devin Teske >>=20 >> -> 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.teske@fisglobal.com >>=20 >=20 >=20 > 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 m= ain 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 av= ail. Even tried -safe-mode to reset everything ;'( Just now also noticed that the search bar also acts the same way as the loc= ation bar (enter does nothing and "go" button also does nothing). --=20 Devin >=20 _____________ The information contained in this message is proprietary and/or confidentia= l. If you are not the intended recipient, please: (i) delete the message an= d all copies; (ii) do not disclose, distribute or use the message in any ma= nner; and (iii) notify the sender immediately. In addition, please be aware= that any message addressed to our domain is subject to archiving and revie= w by persons other than the intended recipient. Thank you. _____________
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