Bugzilla Bug 64267

I am having some major UI issues with net-www/mozilla-firefox-1.0_pre . Others
in #gentoo are having these issues, too, I hope they contribue to this bug.

What happened to me was that I went to start firefox the first time after
merging it. I had 0.9.3-r1 before. Running firefox from a terminal reported no
errors whatsoever, it simply silently exited. I ran it again, and firefox came
up.

I was expecting it to go to my group of home pages, but this didn't happen,
just a blank page. So I go to prefs, and notice that my home page is blank. I
also use a proxy here, so I went to those settings, and oddly no radio buttons
were selected at all (including direct connection) , and no text boxes were
filled in. I filled in the info, hit OK and nothing happened. The window with
the proxy settings was still there. I hit cancel, again nothing. I hit the X in
gnome 2.6 around this window, nothing.

In the end I had to kill it manually. I restarted firefox, tried to exit via
file / quit, and it did not quit. Tried again, nothing. Once again I had to
kill it.

I brought it up again, tried to quit, no go. So i decided to browse bugs,
serached, didn't get what I wanted, went to hit the back button, but it was
greyed out.

I further found that I could not get out of the preferances window at all.

So right now firefox is unusable to me.

If you are a user who has seen these or simiar UI issues, please add to this
bug, thanks.


Gentoo Base System version 1.4.3.8p1
Portage 2.0.50-r11 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.2.3, glibc-2.3.4.20040808-r0, 2.6.7)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.7 i686 Pentium III (Katmai)
distcc 2.17 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632)
[disabled]
ccache version 2.3 [enabled]
Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59
Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.5
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CFLAGS="-mcpu=pentium3 -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -mmmx -msse
-mfpmath=sse,387"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
COMPILER=""
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config
/usr/kde/3.2/share/config
/usr/kde/3.3/share/config:/usr/kde/3.3/env:/usr/kde/3.3/shutdown
/usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/fax /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref
/usr/share/config /var/bind /var/qmail/control /var/spool/fax/etc"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-mcpu=pentium3 -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -mmmx -msse
-mfpmath=sse,387"
DISTDIR="/var/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoaddcvs buildpkg ccache notitles sandbox"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://gentoo.mirrors.pair.com/
http://mirror.datapipe.net/gentoo http://open-systems.ufl.edu/mirrors/gentoo
ftp://gentoo.netnitco.net/pub/mirrors/gentoo/source/ ftp://gentoo.ccccom.com"
MAKEOPTS="-j3"
PKGDIR="/var/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/var/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY=""
SYNC="rsync://rsync.namerica.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="X apache2 apm avi berkdb bitmap-fonts cdr chroot crypt cups encode esd
foomaticdb gdbm gif gnome gpm gtk gtk2 imlib java jpeg kde kerberos ldap libg++
libwww mad mikmod mmx motif mozilla mpeg mysql ncurses nls oggvorbis opengl oss
pam pdflib perl png python qt quicktime readline sdl slang snmp
spell sse ssl svga tcpd tiff truetype x86 xml2 xmms xprint xv zlib"

I am experiencing similar but not nearly as severe issues on my home system
(that was my work system). The only problem I found with it on my home system
was that saying OK to prefs resulted in an error box that says that it can't
save prefs, and some other text, but it then crashes and I can't read that
fast.


Portage 2.0.50-r11 (default-x86-2004.2, gcc-3.4.1, glibc-2.3.4.20040808-r0,
2.6.7-grsec)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.7-grsec i686 AMD Athlon(TM) XP 1800+
Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16
distcc 2.17 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632)
[disabled]
ccache version 2.3 [enabled]
Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r4
Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.5-r1
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -fstack-protector -fomit-frame-pointer
-funroll-loops -fprefetch-loop-arrays -pipe -mmmx -msse -m3dnow
-mfpmath=sse,387"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
COMPILER=""
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config
/usr/kde/3.2/share/config
/usr/kde/3.3/share/config:/usr/kde/3.3/env:/usr/kde/3.3/shutdown
/usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config
/var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -fstack-protector -fomit-frame-pointer
-funroll-loops -fprefetch-loop-arrays -pipe -mmmx -msse -m3dnow
-mfpmath=sse,387"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoaddcvs buildpkg ccache notitles sandbox"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirrors.tds.net/gentoo
ftp://gentoo.netnitco.net/pub/mirrors/gentoo/source/
http://gentoo.blueyonder.co.uk ftp://mirror.iawnet.sandia.gov/pub/gentoo/"
MAKEOPTS="-j3"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY=""
SYNC="rsync://rsync.namerica.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="3dnow X alsa apm avi berkdb bitmap-fonts cdr chroot crypt dv dvd dvdr
encode foomaticdb gdbm gif gnome gpm gtk gtk2 imlib java jpeg kde ldap libg++
libwww mad mikmod mmx motif mozilla mpeg ncurses nls oggvorbis opengl oss pam
pdflib perl png pwdb python qt quicktime readline sdl slang spell sse ssl svga
tcltk tcpd tiff truetype x86 xml2 xmms xprint xv zlib"

i've actually, *gasp* switched to konqueror 3.3 as my web browser because of
these issues...

My useflags may be of interest:

Calculating dependencies ...done!
[ebuild   R   ] net-www/mozilla-firefox-1.0_pre  -debug +gnome +gtk2 -ipv6
+java +ldap -mozdevelop -moznoxft +mozxmlterm +truetype +xinerama +xprint 0 kB

Total size of downloads: 0 kB

*** Bug 64769 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

My bug was marked dup, but I think it's more like a depends or something.
Here's what I was experiencing:
mozilla-firefox-1.0pre is unable to find text in pages using the new Find bar.
Inputing text from the page and hitting Find Next or Find Previous does
absolutely nothing. The highlight button will highlight the search terms in the
page however.

I'm getting the same problem as comment #4, but for me highlighting doesn't
work.

Also same problem as comment #4.  (Highlighting works for me.)

I'm having exactly the same problem as in the original bug report.  Previous
version (0.9-something) worked fine, but emerge updating to 1.0pre left me with
a completely useless firefox.  emerge info is here:

Portage 2.0.50-r11 (default-x86-2004.0, gcc-3.3.4, glibc-2.3.3.20040420-r1,
2.6.7-gentoo-r11)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.7-gentoo-r11 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1200MHz
Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16
Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r4
Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.5-r1
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -fomit-frame-pointer"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
COMPILER=""
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config
/usr/kde/3.1/share/config /usr/kde/3.2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/env
/usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config
/usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref/usr/share/config
/usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/
/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/
/usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -fomit-frame-pointer"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache sandbox"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp:///ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/gentoo/
http://gentoo.eliteitminds.com http://ftp.ntua.gr/pub/linux/gentoo/
http://ftp-mirror.internap.com/pub/gentoo/"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="X alsa apm arts avi berkdb bitmap-fonts crypt cups encode esd foomaticdb
gdbm gif gnome gpm gtk gtk2 imlib java jpeg kde ldap libg++ libwww mad mikmod
mmxmotif mozilla mpeg ncurses nls oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png
python q t quicktime readline sdl slang spell sse ssl svga tcltk tcpd tetex
truetype x86xml2 xmms xprint xv zlib"

I am having the problems where the arrow keys, home and end keys don't work. 
And I cannot save preferences.

I have the same problems as comment #8 and comment #4. I don't see any replies
about this issue from any gentoo devs. Is this issue known to the upstream ?
Where can we track it down (I know mozilla is actively using bugzilla for bug
tracking too).

The USE flags are:  -debug -debug -gnome +gtk2 +gtk2 -ipv6 +java +java -ldap
-mozdevelop -moznoxft -moznoxft -mozxmlterm +truetype -xinerama -xinerama
+xprint

Also note that I am using X.Org 6.8.0 (no Composite extension activated tho as
my hw driver has no accel for RENDER extension).

Other information:
Portage 2.0.50-r11 (default-x86-2004.2, gcc-3.3.4, glibc-2.3.3.20040420-r1,
2.6.8.1)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.8.1 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.80GHz
Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16
Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r4
Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.5-r1
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -fomit-frame-pointer"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
COMPILER=""
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config
/usr/kde/3.2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config
/var/qmail/alias /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -fomit-frame-pointer"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache sandbox"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.roedu.net/pub/mirrors/gentoo.org"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.at.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="X alsa apm avi berkdb bitmap-fonts crypt encode foomaticdb gdbm gif gtk
gtk2 imlib java jpeg libg++ libwww mad mikmod mmx motif mpeg mysql ncurses nls
oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png quicktime readline slang sse sse2 ssl
tcltk tcpd tiff truetype x86 xml2 xmms xprint xv xvid zlib"

I'm also having the "find doesn't work" problem.  There is a bug for this on
the mozilla bugzilla: <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=260413>,
but no help other than the suggestion to download a mozilla.org binary.

I'm getting the same problem as comment #4 and comment #8.  Although, the arrow
keys (and home/end keys) do in fact work if the focus of the page isn't in a
form input box, i.e. to navigate around in a text input box I need to use the
mouse.  This applies to all input boxes, not just ones included on the page, so
arrow keys et al. don't work in things like the main address box, the search
toolbar box, or even the find box or any input box in the preference menu.

$ emerge info
Portage 2.0.51_rc1 (default-amd64-2004.2, gcc-3.3.4, glibc-2.3.4.20040808-r0,
26.7-gentoo-r11 x86_64)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.7-gentoo-r11 x86_64 AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 242
Gentoo Base System version 1.5.3
Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r4
Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.5-r1
Binutils: sys-devel/binutils-2.15.90.0.1.1-r3
Headers:  sys-kernel/linux-headers-2.4.26
Libtools: sys-devel/libtool-1.5.2-r5
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
COMPILER=""
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config
/usr/kde/3./share/config
/usr/kde/3.3/share/config:/usr/kde/3.3/env:/usr/kde/3.3/shutdown
usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config
/var/qmil/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://open-systems.ufl.edu/mirrors/gentoo/
http://gentoo.cccco.com ftp://gentoo.ccccom.com
http://mirror.datapipe.net/gentoo http://mirror.daapipe.net/gentoo
http://gentoo.eliteitminds.com"
MAKEOPTS="-j3"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY=""
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="X aim alsa amd64 apm avi berkdb bitmap-fonts bonobo cdr crypt cups dvd dvd
emacs encode esd foomaticdb gdbm gif gnome gpm gtk gtk2 gtkhtml guile
imagemagck imap imlib java jpeg kde libg++ libwww mikmod motif mozilla mpeg
multilib myql ncurses nls nogcj offensive oggvorbis opengl pam pda pdflib perl
png ppds pyhon qt quicktime readline samba sdl slang snmp spell ssl tcltk tcpd
truetype us xml2 xmms xprint xv zlib"

People are reporting a lot of major problems.

Could a dev please comment on status?

I am having the same problems as #8. How did a preview release ever get into
the stable tree? I recommend downgrading to 0.9 until these _major_ issues are
resolved.

Portage 2.0.50-r11 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.3.4, glibc-2.3.3.20040420-r1,
2.6.8-gentoo)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.8-gentoo i686 AMD Athlon(tm) Processor
Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16
ccache version 2.3 [enabled]
Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r4
Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.5-r1
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CFLAGS="-march=athlon-tbird -O3 -pipe -fforce-addr -fomit-frame-pointer
-funroll-loops -frerun-loop-opt -frerun-cse-after-loop -falign-functions=4
-ffast-math"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
COMPILER=""
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config
/usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config
/usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/
/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/
/usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon-tbird -O3 -pipe -fforce-addr -fomit-frame-pointer
-funroll-loops -frerun-loop-opt -frerun-cse-after-loop -falign-functions=4
-ffast-math"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache prelink sandbox"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://sunsite.ualberta.ca/pub/unix/Linux/gentoo/
ftp://ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo/
http://ds.thn.htu.se/linux/gentoo http://mirror.pudas.net/gentoo
ftp://mirror.pudas.net/gentoo rsync://planetmirror.com/gentoo/"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/portage/local"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="3dnow X aalib alsa apache2 apm athena avi berkdb bitmap-fonts bonobo cdr
crypt cups dga directfb doc dvd emacs encode fbcon foomaticdb gb gdbm gif gpm
gstreamer gtk gtk2 guile imlib java jikes jpeg libg++ libwww mad mbox mikmod
mmx mono motif mozilla moznocompose moznoirc moznomail moznoxft mozsvg mpeg msn
music ncurses nls nomac offensive oggvorbis opengl operanom2 pam pdflib perl
png ppds prelink python readline samba sdl slang spell ssl svga tcltk tcpd
tetex truetype unicode v4l x86 xml2 xmms xprint xv zlib"

The find as you type error also exists with a brand new user. The preferences
can be saved if you delete the compreg.dat from your profiles directory.

1/ Search (CTRL+F) does not work at all (except highlighting). 

2/ Middle mouse button has gone mad. It is opening some never-seen before random URLs when middle-clicking on the tabs or in address bar. 

3/ Closing the tabs by middle click has stopped working in default configuration. 

Bugs 2/ and 3/ can be fixed by going to about:config, using filter:middle and changing middlemouse.contentLoadURL to false.

4/ Configuration changes cannot be saved after upgrade. I had to delete the complete profile to restore proper behaviour.

same problems as comment 15, will provide logs etc if needed

Same problems as Comment 15 and also typing '/' to search as you type is not
working either.

Well, I discovered now that the same problem as in <a
href="http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=64267#c17">Comment 17</a> affects
me as well. I did not notice this first, sorry. Search as you type is not
working.

Another problem I had with the Find Bar is that the search term gets changed to
"undefined" every time a page is loaded.

I downgraded to mozilla-firefox-0.9.3 because the broken Find Bar was costing
me too much time.  Now I just saw a security advisory concerning multiple
issues on all mozilla-firefox versions prior to 1.0_pre,  
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200409-26.xml.

arrow keys don't work! why is this not marked as ~x86!?

search as you type doesn't work.

Furthermore, opening, e.g. a pdf, gives you the dialog box with: Open with program and Save. In this dialog box, the OK button is always disabled, no matter which program or the save option I choose.

To be a bit louder on Comment #12, could a developer PLEASE comment? At this
point, we have no idea the status of this bug.

Bug 64196 has a fix for the find toolbar not working.

Now we just need a patch that allows you to tell find to search for exactly what you type.

Sorry it took so long to get this fixed.  Please try 1.0_pre-r1 which should
fix a lot of problems.  It has two major features:

1. pushes out mozilla.eclass change to disable typeaheadfind in myext.  Don't
despair, typeaheadfind is still available, it's just not through that
deprecated extension.

2. depends on mozilla-launcher-1.20, which deletes any existing compreg.dat
from your profile dirs when it detects that firefox has been updated.

Please re-open this bug if you still have problems.

there's a lot of noise (and conflicting 'bug' reports) ... so i'd say
please open a new bug to cover issues 1.0_pre-r1 has

except for the 'find is broken' bug; that is Bug 64196