149601 - No keyboard input accepted in text dialog boxes such as URL bar when new window is opened.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 82534

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[Chris Bellers]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020530
BuildID:    2002053012

Occasionally (with probability increasing with the time the browser application
is left idle), opening a new mozilla window will result in a browser window into
which no text can be input from the keyboard. The URL bar, the google search
text dialog, and the slashdot search bar are all examples. 

During this behaviour, text can be pasted into the text box, but since keyboard
input is ignored, hitting enter to submit the result does nothing.

FIX: Minimizing and restoring the window corrects the behaviour.

Reproducible: Sometimes
Steps to Reproduce:
1. launch mozilla application (with quicklaunch enabled)
2. close all mozilla windows (leaving QL running) 
3. Let browser sit idle for 15 minutes
4. Open a new window by clicking on either a desktop or win32 startbar icon. It
is probable that you will now have a badly behaving window.

Actual Results:  Window spawned was unresponsive to keyboard text imput.

Expected Results:  Mozilla should have spawned a properly functioning window.

Comment 1

[rolux]

The same thing occasionally happens when opening new tabs, and it is not
platform-specific [Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.0.0)]

Comment 2

[R.K.Aa.]

You should uninstall older builds before installing new, and make sure no old
installation files are left over.

(Depending on how many older builds you've had installed, deleting components
and chrome in the installation dir is probably also a good idea.)

Resolving as dup of bug 82534

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 82534 ***