Comment 112 for bug 438868

Agreed, it has driven me to use Chromium as my primary browser.

On Sun, Jul 4, 2010 at 9:43 PM, hantms <email address hidden> wrote:

> This still happens for me in Lucid, with Firefox 3.6.6
>
> Not sure what constitutes a low priority bug, but it's been an issue for
> ages, and it is really annoying. I typically open web pages by typing
> (part of) the URL, and having to close the browser and opening it again
> is very annoying.
>
> The other issue where anything typed into either the address bar or the
> search field gets deleted after 3-4 keystrokes is also VERY annoying.
>
> Together this just makes Firefox feel buggy, having to restart it
> multiple times a day to either use the address bar or the search box.
>
> --
> Numerous applications have focus issues after emerging from a screensaver
> or suspend
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/438868
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> of a duplicate bug.
>
> Status in The Mozilla Firefox Browser: Confirmed
> Status in “compiz” package in Ubuntu: New
> Status in “firefox” package in Ubuntu: Triaged
> Status in “firefox-3.0” package in Ubuntu: Invalid
> Status in “firefox-3.5” package in Ubuntu: Invalid
> Status in “indicator-session” package in Ubuntu: Invalid
>
> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: firefox-3.5
>
> For the past few weeks, builds of Firefox 3.5, 3.6, and 3.7 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
>
> ProblemType: Bug
> Architecture: i386
> CheckboxSubmission: b8398b21075a3a8723b2ba20478c4f9e
> CheckboxSystem: 703a6ca1eefae989daaf40c6bb6aa94a
> Date: Tue Sep 29 13:34:19 2009
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
> Package: firefox 3.5.3+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu3
> PackageArchitecture: all
> ProcEnviron:
> LANG=en_US.UTF-8
> SHELL=/bin/bash
> ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-11.36-genusername
> SourcePackage: firefox-3.5
> Uname: Linux 2.6.31-11-generic i686
>
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