From: Willie Wong <wwong@math.princeton.edu>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox 4 hard freeze
Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2011 16:16:10 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110414201610.GA2685@math.princeton.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110414195339.GA740@math.princeton.edu>
On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 03:53:39PM -0400, Willie Wong wrote:
> Hi list,
>
> I'm running into some weird problem. Firefox was upgraded to version 4
> a few days ago. And up until last night I have had no problems with
> it. Starting this morning, however, it seems that Firefox would freeze
> up whenever I touch the keyboard with the window in focus!
>
> I can open new tabs, go visit links in the history, etc, with no
> problems. But any keyboard input (hitting Ctrl-t for new tab, Ctrl-n
> for new Window, or trying to enter an address into the address bar)
> completely freezes the program.
>
Update: seems that only some keyboard input is affected. For example,
arrow keys for scrolling, and typing things in text/input boxes on
webpages are fine. But "hotkeys" interacting with Firefox, or typing
in the Address bar or Search bar freezes the program.
W
--
Willie W. Wong wwong@math.princeton.edu
Data aequatione quotcunque fluentes quantitae involvente fluxiones invenire
et vice versa ~~~ I. Newton
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-04-14 20:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-04-14 19:53 [gentoo-user] Firefox 4 hard freeze Willie Wong
2011-04-14 20:16 ` Willie Wong [this message]
2011-04-14 20:47 ` Paul Hartman
2011-04-15 23:30 ` Willie Wong
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