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Date:      Sun, 20 Jul 2003 00:19:21 +0100
From:      Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk>
To:        Steve <probsd@ec.rr.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: mozilla locking up
Message-ID:  <20030719231921.GA3960@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <2401.192.168.1.4.1058652842.squirrel@probsd.org>
References:  <2401.192.168.1.4.1058652842.squirrel@probsd.org>

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On Sat, Jul 19, 2003 at 06:14:02PM -0400, Steve wrote:
> I've tried mozilla-1.4,2 from pkg_add -r
> I've tried 1.4.2 from ports with a simple 'make install clean'
> I've tried mozilla-gtk
> 
> 4.8-STABLE  built 12 hrs ago
> current ports tree as of 16 hrs ago
> 
> pkgdb -fuF spits no linkable errors
> 
> No make.conf optimization flags
> GENERIC kernel
> 
> Pentium 3 733 Mhz
> Nvidia geforce 3 ti 500 64 megs of RAM
> 
> Soon as I click in the URL window, it locks up.
> 
> Anybody?

Does it unlock itself if you wait 5 minutes? If so, then you're being
hit by the 'find as you type' bug^Wfeature.

Work around is to go into Preferences : Advanced : Keyboard Navigation
and uncheck the 'Find As You Type' option.

It's a bug in Mozilla: see
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=201321

	Cheers,

	Matthew

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