Mozilla-Firebird's broken text input

[alwyn]

Hi,

I'm using Mozilla-Firebired 0.6-r5 and getting weird behaviour where it works fine and then all of a suddenly I cannot input text into any input box, not even the location bar.

I remember having something similar years back with Netscape 4.x...

Anyone know whats wrong?

[Mooses]

I sometimes have the same prob, however minimizing it and bringing it up again solves the prob for me.

Mooses

[Konsti]

I am experinecing that sometimes too, a few focus changes does the trick. I am not sure ATM, does disable typeaheadfind solve it?
K

[LinuxDolt]

do you have any extensions installed? there are several broken extensions ou there that seem to do this alot, the download progressbar is among them (alas, i wish it weren't), the mouse gestures ones are also broken... try disabling these if you have them installed...

[searcher]

Same problem here, BUT i fixed it(tm)! (warning: your mileage may vary )

I re-emerge MozillaFirebird without the gtk2 support. It had no impact on how it looks (since it uses it's own skins). you can do this by setting the "USE="-gtk2 gtk" flags. Not sure if that even did anything, maybe all it needs is a good recompile

I do remember a bit back that Mozilla had some trouble with GTK2, but i was under the assumption it got fixed. Maybe later on i guess.
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[grzewho]

i had a problem with text input in gecko based browsers once and discovered that it was caused by not having esd running. weird, but worked for me
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[alwyn]

I suspected gtk2 also...

If you compile without gtk2 will the anti-aliased fonts and xft still work?