Subject: Re: mozilla won't accept text input
To: Steven M. Bellovin <smb@research.att.com>
From: john heasley <heas@shrubbery.net>
List: current-users
Date: 07/28/2004 19:19:03
Wed, Jul 28, 2004 at 09:37:06PM -0400, Steven M. Bellovin:
> In message <20040728235909.50E692069F@frodo.juniper.net>, Simon Gerraty writes:
> >I've got mozilla-1.6nb1 on 2.0G, and it works fine - expect that none
> >of the dialogue boxes accept any input.
> >
> 
> I use Galeon, not Mozilla, but I sometimes see the same thing.  As a 
> bypass, I select some text in an xterm; when I move the focus back to 
> the browser window, it works properly.  I've seen some indications that 
> with Galeon, the keyboard focus is sometimes in another tab, so 
> switching tabs explicitly might help.

me too, fwiw.  It occured a *lot* more frequently for me (i386 -> sparc64
display) before we found the FIONREAD arg type bug.  So, perhaps the bug
is lurking in that area.