From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1QASyq-0001UW-N9 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 14 Apr 2011 20:17:33 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DAEBA1C0E7; Thu, 14 Apr 2011 20:16:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from sentinel.math.Princeton.EDU (sentinel.math.Princeton.EDU [128.112.16.31]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B49AC1C0E7 for ; Thu, 14 Apr 2011 20:16:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from math.princeton.edu ([128.112.18.16]) by sentinel.math.Princeton.EDU with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QASxW-0006PK-8a for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Thu, 14 Apr 2011 16:16:11 -0400 Received: by math.princeton.edu (Postfix, from userid 1737) id 35B0DC0E78; Thu, 14 Apr 2011 16:16:10 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2011 16:16:10 -0400 From: Willie Wong To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox 4 hard freeze Message-ID: <20110414201610.GA2685@math.princeton.edu> References: <20110414195339.GA740@math.princeton.edu> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20110414195339.GA740@math.princeton.edu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-12-10) X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: bb41c76709ddc43c22c6165b46e0b2bf 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