SillyDog701

[richard mitnick]

One one computer, the address bar in FF has ceased working.

I tried re-installing with a fresh download of 3.5.7. This did not work.

I can still get any site by entering the url in Google.

Any thoughts?

>>RSM

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.1.6) Gecko/20091206 SeaMonkey/2.0.1

[Fulvio]

Richard,
how is the address bar not working? Let's say that you have a tab, or site in the address bar, and if you select it (it turns blue), you cannot enter a website?
I am using no more than two tabs (my home group), if I want to open another site, I select File|New Tab, and the address bar is empty. I, usually, try to use existing Bookmarks, but I have been entering new URLs. The way I do it this site opens immediately. This is not true of some other sites, like windowsbbs.com. It has been loading and loading, with a blank page, waiting for the site, ever since I opened Sillydog. I am using a nightly, but this behavior has applied to all versions, since 3.5. I have been convinced that it was a case of using an old clunker, but I am not so sure.
Note that I never got word that my post was entered, and that FF was left in the Task Manager after closing. I am using, now 3.5.7, and it works fine. Bye bye nightly.

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.8pre) Gecko/20100107 Shiretoko/3.5.8pre

[richard mitnick]

Hey Fulvio-

You asked "...Let's say that you have a tab, or site in the address bar, and if you select it (it turns blue), you cannot enter a website..."?

Precicely.

Let's say, I launch FF. and I type in a web address: http://www.npr.org. I click on the blue arrow, or hit Enter, and nothing happens.

Now, if I got to a bookmark, and click on the bookmark, FF will open that site; but its will not show in the address bar.

I just entered http://www.npr.org in the address bar and clicked on the blue arrow, nothing happened. Then I clicked on http://boinc.berkeley.edu. I went right to the BOINC site, but that site's address did not appear in the address bar which it should. Instead, the NPR address remained sitting in the address bar.

Very strange.

Nice to "speak" with you.

>>RSM

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.1.6) Gecko/20091206 SeaMonkey/2.0.1

[Fulvio]

Richard,
nice speaking to you, of course. Let me tell you what I have started seeing since 3.5, and probably since 3.0.x. If I try to open a site, from a bookmark, and I select File|New Tab, the site loads almost instantly. The same happens if I try to do it from a link, like one which you gave me. The results are mixed if I try to enter a new site at times it will do nothing. Other times it will. When I copied the npr.org, and pasted in the address bar, it went there, and after clicking Enter it opened it, very slowly. At times, I have had to hit reload to finish.
It was really bad with an ancient profile. This version uses a new profile, and it is ok.
May be, creating a new profile may help.

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.7) Gecko/20091221 Firefox/3.5.7

[richard mitnick]

Fulvio-

thanks. I have an easy work-around, I just load the URL into a search tool. This is not now a big enough deal for me to do a lot of work. I am using SeaMonkey browser as my default. There are just a wee few thing I cannot not do, like I just wanted to save a web page. I needed to use IE.

>>RSM

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.1.6) Gecko/20091206 SeaMonkey/2.0.1

[Fulvio]

I am not familiar with the original problem, but does it not work to save the page using File|Save page as?

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.8pre) Gecko/20100112 Shiretoko/3.5.8pre (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)

[richard mitnick]

Sorry Fulvio, I do not understand your reference.

>>RSM

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.1.7) Gecko/20100104 SeaMonkey/2.0.2

[Fulvio]

Sorry Fulvio, I do not understand your reference.

>>RSM

I was referring to Save (Web) Page which was giving you problems.
There, also, a view to Save Page, if you use the Prefbar addon.

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.7) Gecko/20091221 Firefox/3.5.7

[richard mitnick]

Saving anything was not my problem.

My problem is that I type into the address bar a web address URL, click, and nothing happens. I type that same address into a search tool, click, and I go right to the site.

>>RSM

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.1.7) Gecko/20100104 SeaMonkey/2.0.2

[Fulvio]

Richard,
you brought up two different issues. I was referring to what you quoted:

There are just a wee few thing I cannot not do, like I just wanted to save a web page. I needed to use IE.

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.8pre) Gecko/20100112 Shiretoko/3.5.8pre (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)

[richard mitnick]

Hi yes, you are right, I do not remember what it was that I could not save. In fact, I just saved the page prior to this with your message. It save as viewtopic.php.htm.

But, that is really an aside, sorry I introduced it. I am happy with SeaMonkey.

>>RSM

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.1.7) Gecko/20100104 SeaMonkey/2.0.2

[richard mitnick]

Solved. Not sure how.

I installed 3.6, did not like3 it w/o Roboform,, went back to 3.5.7.

Then, everything worked.

>>RSM

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.7) Gecko/20100104 SeaMonkey/2.0.2