Mozilla was updated to 1.5 with an "emerge -u world" a couple of days ago. The older version was left running, and was running fine. Then on shutting that down and restarting Mozilla it can't connect to URLs entered in the bar at top. Strangely, it can connect to sites in the bookmark menu, and to links in those sites. Mozilla Firebird, also updated, is working fine. Rebooting the system has made no difference in Mozilla's behavior. It makes no difference to prepend with "http://" or "ftp://". Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3.
Just emerge 1.6a and that works normally.
This is just a guess, but 1.5 and 1.6 inherited the "pinball" theme I'd had set, although they didn't use it because it was an older version. Still, Edit > Preferences > Appearance > Themes showed it as selected in 1.6, while not presenting it visually since it recognized it as out of date. Could 1.5 have been leaving the old theme just partially active in a way that could have interferred with the URL bar function? I seem to recall other weirdness from themes back around 1.0. I'd test this, but I'd have to revert to 1.4 to install the theme, the go back up to 1.5, then back to 1.6 if it isn't it to restore functionality again ... and I won't have time for that sequence for over a week due to impending Turkey in a far place.
The best way to find out would be to unmerge mozilla, rm -rf /usr/lib/mozilla and re-merge it so that there's no cruft. Please let me know if this solves the issue.
No response from user, assume fixed.
