Anyone else seen this Firefox bug?
Every once in a while when I’m using Firefox, if I type a URL into the location bar, hitting Enter to go to the location does nothing. If I restart Firefox, it works again, but it seems to happen at least once a day.
Anyone else seeing this? This is on Linux (Ubuntu) x86. I’ve seen the same behavior on OS X, as well.
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Hi Zonker,
Matter of fact yes, I’ve had the same bug surface using Firefox in Windows XP, although not as frequently as once a day. The bug also seems to appear not only when typing a URL in the location bar but also when typing a URL in the search bar too. Problem also goes away when I restart Firefox. Don’t really have a clue what may be causing this, but I suspect it may be one of my extensions (add-ons). Haven’t had the time to disable each one individually to test it out. Would really appreciate your posting an update to this track if you find out anything new.
Best,
pat
I can’t say that I have, but I usually just use links or google. The bug I most often encounter is flash content crashing firefox.
I have the same problem (found your post because of it). For me, it seems to occur only after I’ve been on an SSL secured page (https). I’ve found that a new window will fix it, which keeps me from having to restart the entire browser all the time, but it’s still highly annoying. I’ve got a lot of extensions, so I’m sure one of them is conflicting with something in the most recent FF release (2.0.0.5). Good luck finding the culprit.
I haven’t exactly had that problem but the bug I’ve experianced has been that instead of going to the address I type in, I go to google instead.
Yes & I found your site while looking for the cause or work around. It’s a really annoying bug!!
I also get this problem, probably 3-4 times a day.
Only addons I have are: del.icio.us bookmarks, downthemall, greasemonkey, and interclue.