Date: Mon, 9 May 2011 00:27:49 +0100 From: Gautham Ganapathy <gautham@lisphacker.org> To: Devin Teske <dteske@vicor.com> Cc: FreeBSD <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Firefox URL Address Bar does not work under 8.1-RELEASE Message-ID: <BANLkTikTFz4xeENVazPHFPe35Ykf=6KiJA@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4ABF6511-5BF2-4E70-A148-1CD9CE4B0937@vicor.com> References: <4ABF6511-5BF2-4E70-A148-1CD9CE4B0937@vicor.com>
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On Sat, May 7, 2011 at 10:42 PM, Devin Teske <dteske@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.teske@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. Gauthamhelp
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