User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040707 Firefox/0.9.2 Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040707 Firefox/0.9.2 It has been occuring for quite long now, with both the Mozilla suite and the Firefox. There are quite random, not really reproducible occasions when in a textarea or an input, the only way to move the cursor around is to click with the mouse. One has to defocus and refocus the /application window/ in order to get the keys work again. It seems that the Gallery's (a SourceForge project) popup window triggers this even more often than it would usually happen. The current Gallery I'm working with is 1.4.4, by the way. I have experienced this on javascriptless sites as well. Reproducible: Sometimes Steps to Reproduce: as in, it's quite random and I haven't figured out when it happens, but it has happened quite an amount of times now.

(In reply to comment #0) seeing problem too: no cursor movement or home/end working in textarea form (no javascript on that page) build: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040920 Firefox/0.10 (on Gentoo) didn't find a way to fix it, even restart doesn't work. as textarea movement is required for forms here I'm downgrading from Firefox to previous installed+working Mozilla 1.6 again :-/

This bug is similar to bug 260290. Sonymouna, your problem is definitely due to that bug. The difference between this and that is that this bug is random and is fixed by resetting application focus; that one is reliably reproduced and there's no easy solution.

I also get a variant of this on Firefox 1.04 running on Windows XP and Ubuntu, with no extensions installed. It's a 'variant' in that defocusing & refocusing does *not* fix the problem; rather it needs a firefox restart. The scope of the problem may be slightly wider, in that as well as all cursor movement keys not working, copy & paste also fails (copy & paste are even greyed out in the context menu). The cursor movement problem and the copy/paste problem always co-occur. The problem is frequent but intermittent and apparently random. I have not yet found a reliable way to reproduce.

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I have a bad news, Gerv. As I am typing this, it is happening, and actually, if I try to press Slash or the Apostrophe even in this mere textarea, it will trigger the quick search bar (albeit I am fairly sure the two are actually not connected, i.e. the quicksearch thing is not causing this bug). I also notice that the arrows and home etc. keys do not work anywhere: not even when the canvas in general is in focus, that is, I cannot scroll the document with the keyboard at the moment. The last thing I was doing was closing a PDF (Adobe plugin embedded) tab, but I am fairly sure it is not caused by that plugin, or the way of hooking it into the browser, either. This is Firefox 1.5 Beta 1. As always, going to another window and coming back, fixes it.

has this been solved for any of you?? (In reply to comment #5) > ...if I try to press Slash or > the Apostrophe even in this mere textarea, it will trigger the quick search bar > (albeit I am fairly sure the two are actually not connected, i.e. the > quicksearch thing is not causing this bug). Henrik, that's bug 311376 / bug 320465 > I also notice that the arrows and home etc. keys do not work anywhere: not even > when the canvas in general is in focus, that is, I cannot scroll the document > with the keyboard at the moment. > > The last thing I was doing was closing a PDF (Adobe plugin embedded) tab, but I > am fairly sure it is not caused by that plugin, or the way of hooking it into > the browser, either. see also bug 228476, bug 264037. is dom the correct component?

No response to comment 6. Resolving incomplete. If you are still seeing a problem in a current build please try the community support http://mozilla.org/support/firefox/forums or file a new bug.