some times letters get deleted while typing in firefox

[Jeff Lane]

On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 04:50, Tapas Mishra <mightydreams at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 12:58 AM, J <dreadpiratejeff at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> You're not alone, I've seen the same thing from time to time with FF as well.
> Thanks for this information is some one from Canonical reading this.

Well, yeah... I am (switching to my more official account)

>> Are you using a laptop with a track pad?
> I am using a Laptop no trackpad on it.
> It is a Dell Inspiron 1440.

Thanks, that rules out body heat or whatever effecting the trackpad then...

>> For me, I usually can get out of that infinite 'Select All" loop
>> you're describing by moving the pointer out of firefox and clicking a
>> few times elsewhere to ensure focus is out of FF.  Then single clickng
>> back into the search box and typing whatever it was I was typing
>> originally.
> No this did not worked for me I was still in that infinite Select All
> loop and it always got deleted.

Ok, So it happened to me again last night, but this time when I hit
the / sign to use the "Find" search box to search for a string on a
page I was looking at.  This time around, I was able to stop it by
left-clicking about 5-7 times on the page itself.

I'd been thinking about opening a bug about this, but until now, I
figured it was just me and weird hardware, but you've now ruled that
out for me... so I've opened a bug on it:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+bug/641300

Please go subscribe to that bug (you'll need a launchpad account if
you don't have one already.  After you subscribe to that, I believe
you'll be able to add your system info by opening a terminal and
running the command

#> ubuntu-bug firefox

Also, could you let me know what version FF and what verison of Ubuntu
you're running?

Cheers,

Jeff