Comment 31 for bug 583122

I see this bug on Fedora 14 with latest (3.6) packages. It's not (just) caused by sleep/hibernate -- I just saw it on a machine that never sleeps.

Whenever this bug is happening, it reliably causes:
 - Characters I type into the 'Lookup forecast by "City, St"' box at weather.gov
 - Whenever I type one or two characters into the subject field when composing a message in gmail, they get highlighted. To continue typing without losing those characters, I have to hit the right arrow or otherwise deselect them.
 - The awesomebar isn't awesome. That is, it just acts like a plain text box and doesn't pop up any hints.

The most recent time it triggered, I fixed it by defocusing Firefox and then refocusing it.

Restarting Firefox always fixes it for awhile. I have no idea how to trigger it in the first place, though.