[Bug 520421] Re: Firefox bookmarks stop auto-suggesting for no apparent reason
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On 2009-07-29T23:01:08+00:00 Eric Appleman wrote:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2a1pre) Gecko/20090729 Ubuntu/9.10 (Karmic Koala) Firefox/3.6a1pre
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2a1pre) Gecko/20090729 Ubuntu/9.10 (Karmic Koala) Firefox/3.6a1pre
For the past few weeks, the trunk builds have exhibited a behavior where
the autocomplete of the so-called awesome bar will only work
sporadically.
There are some times where the autocomplete will not work at all and
other times when it will appear for a few milliseconds after typing a
letter before disappearing.
I haven't been able to pin-point what causes this, but I have found that
restarting the browser resolves the issue until it occurs again.
This doesn't happen very often, but at least a few times each day.
Reproducible: Sometimes
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On 2009-08-25T16:29:29+00:00 Mak77 wrote:
is this in safe mode? do you have any add-on that could interfere with
it?
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On 2009-09-14T20:03:17+00:00 Twalker wrote:
reporter, please respond to the safe mode question.
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On 2009-09-29T16:52:58+00:00 Eric Appleman wrote:
Happens in safe mode and even when no add-ons are installed.
Also affects 3.5.3 and 3.7a1.
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On 2009-09-29T16:54:52+00:00 Eric Appleman wrote:
Also, I can confirm that this happens on a fresh Ubuntu Jaunty or Karmic
install.
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On 2009-09-30T07:07:03+00:00 Mozilla-bugs-micahscomputing wrote:
Ubuntu Bug:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox-3.5/+bug/438868
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On 2009-09-30T13:30:48+00:00 Eric Appleman wrote:
I've also noticed that if I leave my laptop on overnight with the
browser open, this bug will occur without fail.
Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/520421/comments/6
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On 2009-09-30T13:40:04+00:00 Eric Appleman wrote:
I forgot to mention that my machine doesn't enter hibernation or suspend
and this happens both with and without the screensaver being active.
Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/520421/comments/7
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On 2009-10-08T15:44:45+00:00 Eric Appleman wrote:
Right-clicking on a webpage seems to fix the autocomplete until it acts up again.
I think this may be a focus issue.
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On 2009-10-14T19:01:47+00:00 Fayearthur+bugs wrote:
After watching the behavior a bit, it's really starting to feel to me
like this is an issue with the popup. I sometimes see a brief flash of
the popup with what I believe is the correct autocomplete information.
Also sometimes I see no popup, but the cursor changing from the input
cursor to the default cursor for a split second. I think the popup is
closing as soon as it's opened.
Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/520421/comments/9
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On 2009-10-16T23:10:07+00:00 Alexander Sack wrote:
Is this related to compiz in some way?
Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/520421/comments/10
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On 2009-10-20T14:32:44+00:00 Eric Appleman wrote:
Possibly related to Compiz.
I left my laptop on all night with Compiz disabled and the screensaver
didn't trigger the bug this morning.
Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/520421/comments/11
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On 2009-10-23T16:49:27+00:00 Sdwilsh wrote:
*** Bug 508463 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
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On 2009-10-23T17:27:38+00:00 daviddahl wrote:
I can confirm this bug as well with Compiz turned off. It is hard to
reproduce on command though.
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On 2009-10-23T19:50:23+00:00 Mozilla-bigwillystyle42 wrote:
I also hit this bug occasionally; it seems to occur more frequently
after I've been away from my machine for a while and had the screensaver
kick in. Is there any sort of debug information/output that could be
checked? Or anything we could try while in that state that might provide
more information?
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On 2009-10-24T00:11:56+00:00 cb474 wrote:
I'm also having this problem, on 3.5.3.
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On 2009-11-03T02:18:58+00:00 Fayearthur+bugs wrote:
just confirming that this also affects the search box, as one might
expect.
Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/520421/comments/16
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On 2009-11-03T03:05:03+00:00 Sdwilsh wrote:
Alright, so given comment 16 this is likely an AutoComplete bug.
Dietrich was seeing something like this today I think too.
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On 2009-11-03T10:56:01+00:00 cb474 wrote:
Still see the problem in 3.5.4.
Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/520421/comments/18
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On 2010-01-10T00:38:29+00:00 Eric Appleman wrote:
Still present in upstream:
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2pre) Gecko/20100109
Ubuntu/10.04 (lucid) Namaroka/3.6pre
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.3a1pre) Gecko/20100109
Ubuntu/10.04 (lucid) Minefield/3.7a1pre
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On 2010-01-18T07:16:25+00:00 Fayearthur+bugs wrote:
Alright, noticed a couple more things about what happens when Firefox
gets in this mode:
1) After selecting all of the text in the url bar, mousing out of the
window (like moving your mouse over the title bar) will unselect
everything in the url bar, much like what would happen if you focused
another window.
2) After clearing everything in the address bar, mousing out of the
window will show the emptytext ("Search Bookmarks and History"), much
like what would happen if you focused something else.
Focusing another window will take Firefox out of this mode.
This problem is really not okay for Ubuntu users.
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On 2010-01-22T05:55:07+00:00 Fayearthur+bugs wrote:
opening chrome://global/content/console.xul and evaluating
"window.focus()" fixes it as well
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On 2010-02-04T02:53:57+00:00 Fayearthur+bugs wrote:
Asking for blocking because this is a pretty bad user experience bug for
Ubuntu users, it happens every time I leave the computer for more than a
few minutes and not having the awesomebar autocomplete is pretty
frustrating after having gotten used to it.
Although it comes back after focusing another window, this is both
annoying to have to do every time and not immediately discoverable.
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On 2010-02-06T10:15:20+00:00 Mikhail-zabaluev wrote:
I've narrowed down a way to reproduce this on Ubuntu 9.10:
1. Open a Firefox window.
2. Suspend the computer.
3. Unsuspend it back (note: in my case, I have to unlock the screen).
After this, the address bar autocompletion in the previously open window
is broken. A way to fix it is to get keyboard focus elsewhere (I use
right-click menu on the gnome panel) and then return it to the location
bar.
Similar behavior is observed with Eclipse 3.5. In fact, it's worse there, because keyboard presses cease to have any effect when the buggy state is reached.
In an unrelated Eclipse bug, it's been noted that certain changes made in Gtk+ 2.18 may break applications or widget frameworks that are using Gtk+ in weird undocumented ways which happened to work before.
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On 2010-02-12T21:10:47+00:00 Mbeltzner wrote:
If this is also happening with Eclipse, are we sure it's actually a
Firefox box as opposed to an Ubuntu bug?
Please renominate if you can track down a regression range or
definitively pin this on us.
Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/520421/comments/30
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On 2010-03-10T16:34:22+00:00 mikelococo wrote:
According to the following comment, this bug has also been reproduced on
Arch Linux, which I don't believe has a similar patch lineage to Ubuntu:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox-3.0/+bug/428703/comments/19
If other non-ubuntu folks are experiencing this issue, please confirm
here to get it documented.
Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/520421/comments/33
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On 2010-03-10T20:30:58+00:00 cb474 wrote:
I'm using 32bit Arch Linux and have had this problem for a while (I
commented twice already above, but didn't mention my system). I also had
this problem with 64bit Arch Linux.
Right now I'm using Gnome, Firefox 3.6, 32bit Arch Linux, 2.6.32 kernel.
Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/520421/comments/34
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On 2010-08-30T20:27:27+00:00 Mozilla-bigwillystyle42 wrote:
I've started seeing a slightly different behavior with this bug. The
awesome bar popup will display very very briefly. Not long enough to
read it, but enough for it to blend in with the current background of
the page as it attempts to fade in.
That's using Debian 6.0 "Squeeze" x64.
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On 2010-08-31T17:08:48+00:00 Mikhail-zabaluev wrote:
Is it reproducible with Metacity?
Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/520421/comments/37
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On 2010-08-31T17:09:29+00:00 Mikhail-zabaluev wrote:
(In reply to comment #28)
> Is it reproducible with Metacity?
I should have asked, with something else than Compiz?
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On 2010-11-30T18:17:51+00:00 Vish wrote:
(In reply to comment #28)
> Is it reproducible with Metacity?
No, It's not reproducible with Metacity.
In FF4 the problem has worsened, even the bookmarks button does not work properly because of this bug.
[running 4.0~b8~hg20101128r58314+nobinonly-0ubuntu1~umd1~maverick]
When i click the bookmarks button, the menu drops down, (menu items get
highlighted but does not receive focus?) And as soon as I move the
pointer to (mouse over) a bookmark folder which leads to a submenu the
main menu itself disappears and closes.
This has been a recent problem in FF4.
I believe the problem with the buttons and submenu started since update: firefox-4.0 (4.0~b8~hg20101122r57984+nobinonly-0ubuntu1~umd1~maverick) to 4.0~b8~hg20101123r58015+nobinonly-0ubuntu1~umd1~maverick.
But, it took me a while to realize that it is related to this bug.
[A workaround for the button is, switching to another window and back.]
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On 2010-12-15T03:31:32+00:00 Jhaar wrote:
I'll add a "me too" here. I never saw this with FF3, but now with FF4
I'm seeing it every few days (not hours). Certainly annoying. The
awesome bar is soooo good that my lazy mind is totally incapable of
working without it - it hurts when it doesn't work!
I'm a Fedora13 desktop - no hibernate, but I have compiz and password-
protected screensaver. I can't say I've noticed any relationship between
screensaver and when the fault hits - it seems to be random to me
Jason
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On 2011-01-03T15:27:26+00:00 Arpad Borsos wrote:
*** Bug 537517 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
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On 2011-01-03T15:27:43+00:00 Arpad Borsos wrote:
*** Bug 545846 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
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On 2011-01-03T15:28:04+00:00 Arpad Borsos wrote:
*** Bug 580994 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
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On 2011-01-03T16:52:18+00:00 Justin-lebar+bug wrote:
This might be related to bug 604710, although that bug doesn't talk
about waking up from screensaver or suspend.
Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/520421/comments/46
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On 2011-01-03T20:18:06+00:00 Jhaar wrote:
I am 100% seeing this triggering after unlocking the screensaver. I am
also running compiz. Note: if I manually lock the screen and immediately
unlock it, the fault doesn't happen - so I don't know what the exact
trigger is
Moving to a different virtual desktop and back again seems to clear the
fault - and awesome becomes awesome again
This is with FF4.0b8 under Fedora13
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On 2011-01-08T17:41:13+00:00 SRoesgen wrote:
Hi,
you should lock your screen and then wait for a couple of seconds.
I tried this myself. I you unlock the screen immediately after locking
it, nothing happens and the autocompletion works quite fine. But if your
are running Compiz on your machine, lock the screen and then wait for a
couple of seconds (just count to ten) and after that unlock your screen
you will notice that the autocompletion is not working at all. You have
to switch to another virtual desktop (and then back to the firefox
window) to have it work again.
Interesting is that the screensaver is not of any importance here. If
the screensaver is triggered it does not affect the autocompletion. Only
if activating the screensaver also locks your desktop, then
autocompletion is not working.
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On 2011-01-08T17:47:15+00:00 Justin-lebar+bug wrote:
(In reply to comment #37)
> you should lock your screen and then wait for a couple of seconds.
FWIW, I can't reproduce on my Ubuntu box, although I do experience bug
604710.
Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/520421/comments/49
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On 2011-01-08T18:12:37+00:00 Steve-chapel wrote:
I cannot reproduce with Firefox 3.6 on Fedora 13, whether running compiz
or not. I used to see the problem all the time in early Firefox 3.6
builds, but have not seen this bug in months (when not running compiz),
nor in the past week (running compiz).
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On 2011-01-08T19:32:40+00:00 unfana wrote:
Anyone still getting it with compiz 8.6 / firefox 3.6.13? I have never
been able to reproduce this bug systematically but had it quite frequent
- without apparent trigger - despite never having used a screensaver.
Now I too haven't seen it for a few months. Might have been gone for a
few firefox and/or compiz versions already?
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On 2011-01-08T21:29:11+00:00 Jhaar wrote:
For me this problem only kicked in after going FF4 - I never saw it
under FF3.any either
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On 2011-01-10T22:32:01+00:00 Feedback-launchpad wrote:
XeHK added the following comment to Launchpad bug report 438868:
Yep. For now I've got compiz 0.8.6 and FF 3.6.13 on my ubuntu 10.10, and
this bug is still reproduces after screensaver. This is quite annoying
to live with such bug for more than a year.
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http://launchpad.net/bugs/438868
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On 2011-01-11T01:18:14+00:00 B.J. Herbison wrote:
I have noticed that the address bar failure often seems linked to
another error I've seen -- sub-menus don't work at all. For example, if
I pull up the bookmark menu I can select a top level bookmark, but if I
try to view a folder the bookmarks menu goes away. Same for the main
Firefox 4 menu.
I've been bothered by the two errors (no awesome bar suggestions, no
sub-menus) fairly often, but I have not considered checking to see if
they are linked until just now.
I'm running Minefield on Ubuntu 10.10, Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64;
rv:2.0b9pre) Gecko/20110109 Firefox/4.0b9pre right now, switching to a
new version after I finish this reply. I've seen this issue with more
than one version, but I don't know when it started.
(In reply to comment #37)
> But if your are
> running Compiz on your machine, lock the screen and then wait for a couple of
> seconds (just count to ten) and after that unlock your screen you will notice
> that the autocompletion is not working at all.
I have Compiz installed. I don't think every ten-second screen lock
causes the issue.
> You have to switch to another
> virtual desktop (and then back to the firefox window) to have it work again.
Thank you for this tidbit, I had been restarting Firefox to solve the
problem. I tried this right now and it work -- I had non-functioning
menus and non-functioning awesome bar and switching desktops fixed both
problems.
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On 2011-01-11T03:30:26+00:00 Justin-lebar+bug wrote:
Sub-menu issues are bug 616833. It would be very interesting if these
were related!
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On 2011-01-11T13:24:34+00:00 Marshall-t-brown wrote:
I was so focused on experiencing the issue in bug 616833 that I didn't
really think about this, but I've also been seeing this as well, so it's
not outside the realm of possibility it's related. I also forgot to
consider that I tend to put my laptop to sleep/wake it fairly
frequently, so that fits.
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On 2011-01-16T22:37:53+00:00 Itch wrote:
I don't know if it can help, but when this problem occurs, RSS Live
Bookmarks in personal address bar don't work anymore either.
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On 2011-02-01T20:49:51+00:00 Justin-lebar+bug wrote:
I just came out of suspend and noticed that, in addition to not getting
any awesomebar suggestions, right-clicking in a Gmail plain text message
textbox didn't produce a context menu. Perhaps this isn't related to
the location bar.
Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/520421/comments/58
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On 2011-02-01T20:52:34+00:00 Justin-lebar+bug wrote:
Moving out of toolkit/autocomplete, since this appears to be a larger
problem.
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On 2011-02-08T10:50:48+00:00 B.J. Herbison wrote:
Any idea how hard this is to fix? Could this be a Firefox 4 blocker?
When this happens, users are going to think Firefox is totally broken.
If I didn't know the work-around I would have looked at switching to
another browser.
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On 2011-02-08T14:04:25+00:00 Mozilla-bigwillystyle42 wrote:
I'm not sure if this helps, but when I see this I can see the blue focus
ring on the address bar when my mouse is over Firefox, but when I move
my cursor up to the GNOME panel at the top of my screen where my
Application/Places/System menus are I can see the focus ring move to one
of the shortcuts I have on that panel.
I do not have window focus set to follow the cursor.
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On 2011-02-14T12:24:17+00:00 Ted Mielczarek wrote:
*** Bug 533211 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
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On 2011-02-14T12:25:32+00:00 Ted Mielczarek wrote:
*** Bug 633514 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
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On 2011-02-18T23:30:24+00:00 Tnikkel wrote:
Since this is a regression finding exactly what caused it to regress
might help in fixing it.
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On 2011-03-31T00:11:16+00:00 Karlt wrote:
http://cgit.compiz.org/compiz/core/commit/?id=30a92d8a060d79181a28840d7c66428ef431200c
WFM with compiz fix.
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On 2011-04-02T00:05:13+00:00 Chris Coulson wrote:
Karl - thanks for the link, that fixes it for me too. I'll make sure
Ubuntu users get this next week :)
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