Re: mozilla locking up

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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