Mozilla Stalls when typing into text field or location bar

[Keith Davis]

Any chance that we can get "Find as you Type" either disabled or fixed 
in subsequent releases of Mozilla. Find as you type isn't essential to 
the operation of Mozilla, but in several cases it can cause the browser 
to stall for several minutes when entering url's in the title bar or 
when composing email and is becoming quite annoying for myself and for 
the people that I regularly service.

Reproduction of the problem:
Install the www/mozilla port and the audio/grip port
open mozilla and type something into the url bar
mozilla will freeze for n minutes ( depending on the speed of your cpu )
mozilla will then behave as normal

Problem reproducible on other machines: Yes
Problem severity: Minimal ( but annoying )

Workaround

If you go into Mozilla preferences, under Advanced : Keyboard
Navigation and disable Find As You Type, then you'll avoid the several
minutes of hang the first time you try and type into a text field or
the location bar.

Suggested solution:
Install feature disabled until solution is fixed, then re-enable if necessary