Firefox URL Address Bar does not work under 8.1-RELEASE

[Gautham Ganapathy]

On Sat, May 7, 2011 at 10:42 PM, Devin Teske <dteske at vicor.com> wrote:
> Hi list,
>
> I hope that you can offer some suggestions to help make some sense of this odd situation. The situation is that we install FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE onto standard Intel workstation hardware. We then add about 400 packages to the system. On top of that, we then add firefox.
>
> Everything works great in the system, even firefox ... that is until you try and use the address bar in Firefox to enter a URL. Pressing ENTER has no effect. Neither does clicking the green arrow to the right of the URL in the address bar. Meanwhile, requesting firefox to visit a URL via the command-line works just fine. Clicking through pages and navigating links also works fine. The entire system is functional with except to the URL address bar in Firefox.
>
> We then set up a second machine (also workstation-class hardware, though much newer). Same thing. System works superbly, with exception to firefox's address bar.
>
> Co-workers and I are scratching our head over why this is happening.
>
> We've tried both firefox-3.6 and firefox-3.5 from the FTP archives. We've always installed every dependency. Both browser versions have the same problem. Both machines have the same problem.
>
> Specifically speaking, we've tried these two packages:
>
> ftp://ftp-archive.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/8.1-RELEASE/packages/All/firefox-3.6.4,1.tbz
> ftp://ftp-archive.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/8.1-RELEASE/packages/All/firefox-3.5.10,1.tbz
> --
> Cheers,
> Devin Teske
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I had a similar problem under Windows sometime back after an upgrade.
Resetting the profile worked for me. Try backing up your
$HOME/.mozilla directory, deleting it and starting firefox afresh.

Someone also suggested resetting the toolbars.

Gautham