some times letters get deleted while typing in firefox

[NoOp]

On 09/17/2010 06:23 AM, Jeff Lane wrote:
> 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

Other possibly related bugs:
<https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/?field.searchtext=text&orderby=-importance&search=Search&field.status%3Alist=NEW&field.status%3Alist=INCOMPLETE_WITH_RESPONSE&field.status%3Alist=INCOMPLETE_WITHOUT_RESPONSE&field.status%3Alist=CONFIRMED&field.status%3Alist=TRIAGED&field.status%3Alist=INPROGRESS&field.status%3Alist=FIXCOMMITTED&field.assignee=&field.bug_reporter=&field.omit_dupes=on&field.has_patch=&field.has_no_package=>

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+bug/543919
[Yahoo toolbar deletes text as I write]
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+bug/597399
[firefox problems with autocompletion in text box]
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+bug/632905
[Entering text in Firefox web forms selects all the text, deletes it
then leaves just a single character]

However, were I you, I'd go looking upstream in bugzilla and on the FF
support group:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/query.cgi

http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/
  http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Other+Firefox+support
 news://news.mozilla.org/mozilla.support.firefox