g15daemon causes firefox to reload home page

[Craig C.]

Binary package hint: g15daemon

Intrepid x64
g15daemon 1.9.5.3-3
firefox 3.0.7

when the g15daemon is active, the active tab in the topmost firefox window will go to the set homepage without user intervention, ie. while reading a page it will just load the homepage without touching the keyboard or mouse.

It does this even when firefox does not have focus.

Behaviour is at seemingly random intervals.

sudo /etc/init.d/g15daemon stop #will cause system to behave normally

#First bug report, pls let me know if further info is required

[Zorlan (zorlanv)]

I have also experienced this problem, same setup.

The problem does not appear to be limited to firefox for me however, as I have noticed nautilus will also periodically take me to my home folder if left open (as if the alt-home shortcut has been hit.) Another interesting point to note is that my G6 key currently seems to perform this function as well.

I am currently testing g15macro to see if this at least stops the problem (I have removed the key binding from G6.)
Unless I am mistaken I think the G key assignment is also handled by the g15daemon and therefore could be related.

[Óscar Rodríguez Ríos (ingorr01)]

Same problem.

Ubuntu Jaunty AMD64
Firefox 3.0.10
g15daemon 1.9.5.3
libg15 version 1.201

[Micah Bucy (micah-bucy)]

This issue was reported at the forums for g15daemon. http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?thread_id=2331509&forum_id=590558

[Hew (hew)]

Upstream says this is fixed with libg15 1.2.7, which is now in Karmic.