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Title: O/T - Help me with Firefox, its driving me insane Post by: Sheriff Fatman on May 19, 2007, 12:08:16 PM Since switching to Firefox ages ago I've been a big fan. However, it has a bug in it that is driving me up the wall and is stopping me using it when I want to (I'm having to type this on IE as a result).
There was a thread a while back where I asked about a fix to the problem that stops me typing the ' character (a search field pops up when I do). Someone posted a link, I followed the steps in it and it didn't work. Now, I've discovered that the same thing happens when I type "/". Even worse, the copy and paste functions don't work periodically. It may be coincidence but these problems always seem to appear when I'm browsing the blonde forum. Given that 90% of my browsing is done here this might not be an issue. However, I'm getting seriously hacked off at having to switch, mid-post, to IE because I can't type what I wanted. Help please from the Title: Re: O/T - Help me with Firefox, its driving me insane Post by: ifm on May 19, 2007, 12:11:37 PM Sounds like you found the solution yourself...........
Title: Re: O/T - Help me with Firefox, its driving me insane Post by: kinboshi on May 19, 2007, 12:54:39 PM Type about:config in the address bar
In the text box enter typeahead You're looking for accessibility.typeaheadfind.autostart If it's set to true, change it to false. That should do it...but it might not solve your problem, it could be something else causing it. Title: Re: O/T - Help me with Firefox, its driving me insane Post by: kinboshi on May 19, 2007, 12:56:25 PM That might be the solution that you were given before - if it was - there might be another way to sort it. Do you have the greasemonkey addon installed?
Title: Re: O/T - Help me with Firefox, its driving me insane Post by: CelticGeezeer on May 19, 2007, 01:02:01 PM Have you tried this http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=424954
Title: Re: O/T - Help me with Firefox, its driving me insane Post by: Bongo on May 19, 2007, 02:08:26 PM Have you got the latest version all up to date etc?
Title: Re: O/T - Help me with Firefox, its driving me insane Post by: Sheriff Fatman on May 19, 2007, 02:34:14 PM Thanks guys, just tried the fix that kinboshi linked to and will see how it goes (the bug is sporadic so the fact that its working ok now isn't conclusive, just a good sign).
Started searching for a link to the bug yesterday via Google and got nothing helpful, so you did better than me in finding those links. Title: Re: O/T - Help me with Firefox, its driving me insane Post by: kinboshi on May 19, 2007, 06:01:44 PM Thanks guys, just tried the fix that kinboshi linked to and will see how it goes (the bug is sporadic so the fact that its working ok now isn't conclusive, just a good sign). Started searching for a link to the bug yesterday via Google and got nothing helpful, so you did better than me in finding those links. I didn't link to a fix... :dontask: Title: Re: O/T - Help me with Firefox, its driving me insane Post by: Sheriff Fatman on May 19, 2007, 06:57:07 PM Thanks guys, just tried the fix that kinboshi linked to and will see how it goes (the bug is sporadic so the fact that its working ok now isn't conclusive, just a good sign). Started searching for a link to the bug yesterday via Google and got nothing helpful, so you did better than me in finding those links. I didn't link to a fix... :dontask: It seems that you and celticgeezer are lookalikes! Title: Re: O/T - Help me with Firefox, its driving me insane Post by: kinboshi on May 19, 2007, 07:56:41 PM Thanks guys, just tried the fix that kinboshi linked to and will see how it goes (the bug is sporadic so the fact that its working ok now isn't conclusive, just a good sign). Started searching for a link to the bug yesterday via Google and got nothing helpful, so you did better than me in finding those links. I didn't link to a fix... :dontask: It seems that you and celticgeezer are lookalikes! Is that a compliment? ;carlocitrone; |