User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060111 Firefox/1.5.0.1 Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060111 Firefox/1.5.0.1 When the page's JavaScript is making repeated calls to the applet's public methods, if a user types text into ANY text entry area on that page or ANY other open page, including especially the URL line, that text will be mangled. Basically, the text entry cursor is not always updating to the point AFTER the typed letter, so the next letter goes in as though a BACKSPACE were pressed first. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: see that website: http://www.stolaf.edu/people/hansonr/jmol/test/ping/Test_pingpong.html Actual Results: The details are mostly presented o that webpage, but as yu can see, evn a type This is being typed right here on the mozilla bug page. Now I'm opening that other page and returning here to continue typing....ths, my typing is mangled. No,I am not typing this pooly. What is hapeningis that periodically the text cursr is not advancing to the d of th typed text. seneo pr iIseon Expected Results: Well, obviously the typing should have been readable. This is a critical functional problem for those of us developing the Jmol applet. We need to poll the applet, but even at only two polls per second, the effect is seen. There is no such problem with IE or Opera.

I could recreate this running the same version of Firefox, and Sun JVM Version 1.5.0 (build 1.5.0_06-b05). I find it acts as if I had hit the left arrow key, as opposed to the Backspace key. The following is the first line typed while the applet is running in another tab: I could recrete this running the sam version o Fiefox, and Sun JVM Verion 1.5 (build 1.5.0_0605).b-0.srfea

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 269973 ***

See also bug 327013.

right, sorry -- left-arrow, not BACKSPACE. I used the wrong word. Will make new comments at 269973