Has anyone else run into this or know what the cause is? Is it a
Firebug issue or Firefox issue? I've reinstalled Firefox several times
and currently Firebug is the only installed extension.
Did you ever discuss anything further on this?
FWIW, I'm running Ffx 2.0.0.3 on Win XP Pro, other extensions
installed are del.icio.us, greasemonkey, IE Tab, Google toolbar,
Digger and Aardvark.
On Mar 7, 2:10 pm, "Jim Barraud" <jim.barr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I encounter this bug several times a day and can't narrow down the
> source of it. After having firefox opened for a while, my ability totabthrough forms or have the enterkeyfunction in a textarea doesn't
> work. I work a lot in bugzilla throughout the the day, so both these
> functions are pretty critical. The only way to resolve the issue is to
> open a new browser window. Firefox doesn't even need to be restarted.
> Just opening a new browser window returns the ability totaband use
> the enterkey, but only in the new window, not the old one.
All the bugs I've seen don't affect the keyboard in exactly this
way. Most of them involve keyboard shortcuts being locked up
if Firefox has focus on Flash content. With this problem, it's
just my Enter and Tab keys that stop working even when there's
no Flash in any tabs. I uninstalled Firebug for two days and had
NO problems with my Enter/Tab keys at all. Then today I installed
it again and five minutes later my Enter key was locked up (very
annoying in the Address bar). If I enable the Go button (I usually
disable it) it also stops working when I click it with my mouse.
I feel like this happens most often when I have a lot of tabs open?
This bug is hard to track down, though.
- Bart
My best guess is that firebug is "capturing" focus of our tab- and
enter- key presses.
I would love to hear from others if they have any ideas about how to
resolve this instead of opening up a new browser window.
On Apr 26, 5:16 pm, Bart Szyszka <bartific...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I actually poked around a bit in the Firefox mozilla bug lists and
> > there's several bugs related to keyboard issues such as this. So I'd
> > say it's a Firefox issue.
>
> All the bugs I've seen don't affect the keyboard in exactly this
> way. Most of them involve keyboard shortcuts being locked up
> if Firefox has focus on Flash content. With this problem, it's
> just my Enter andTabkeys that stop working even when there's
> no Flash in any tabs. I uninstalled Firebug for two days and had
> NO problems with my Enter/Tabkeys at all. Then today I installed
The behavior definitely occurs only when Firebug is enabled and I've
been using it for a while.
Has anybody noticed if tab and enter functionality return if you
disable Firebug w/o restarting Firefox?