[FYI] woot! new firefox and thunderbird releases

Collins Richey crichey
Sun Sep 19 09:04:15 PDT 2004


On Sun, 19 Sep 2004 07:20:18 -0400, Kurt Wall <kwall at kurtwerks.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 18, 2004 at 06:59:47PM -0600, Collins Richey took 31 lines to write:
> > On Wed, 15 Sep 2004 19:28:14 -0400, Kurt Wall <kwall at kurtwerks.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > Got it running at work and getting ready to grab it here.
> >
> > FYI, I compiled it yesterday with my weekly updates on gentoo and am
> > now running it. Almost at once I discovered that the navigation arrow
> > keys, etc., would fail to work in a text box (like now editing an
> > email under gmail), so I looked in bugzilla, and damn! there's already
> > a fix for it (speedy little buggers!).
> 
> I ran into this with key combos, such as Ctrl-K, that used to work on
> 0.9.3 but didn't on 1.0PR. I was not amused and reverted to 0.9.3
> 
> > If you encounter this problem, you must do one of the following:
> >
> > 1. Create a new profile (probably not your first choice)
> > 2. Remove file ~/.mozilla/firefox/def?????/compreg.dat
> 
> It does help. I think I'll wait until PR2, if such will be forthcoming.
> 

What do you mean by "it does help"? Does this mean that the workaround
does not totally fix the problem?

I haven't encountered any other problems, so I'm sticking with the
current release.

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(CR) Collins Richey
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