Strange problem with Firefox 3 - return key not working on address bar
Since upgrading to Firefox 3, I’ve had an intermittent problem, both on my work and my home PC’s. Every now and then the enter key will refuse to submit a URL entered in the address bar.
The strange things is that selecting a bookmark from the bookmarks drop down, or from the bookmarks toolbar still works as normal. A restart of the browser does of course fix it, but it seems an odd little bug.
Anyone else experience this?
Bookmark to:
![[Slashdot]](http://slashdot.org/favicon.ico)
![[Digg]](http://digg.com/favicon.ico)
![[Reddit]](http://reddit.com/favicon.ico)
![[del.icio.us]](http://images.del.icio.us/static/img/delicious.small.gif)
![[Facebook]](http://www.facebook.com/favicon.ico)
![[Technorati]](http://technorati.com/favicon.ico)
![[Google]](http://www.google.com/favicon.ico)
![[StumbleUpon]](http://www.stumbleupon.com/favicon.ico)
July 1st, 2008 at 12:59 pm
Yes, I experience the the exact same problem.
I find it very annoying..
.gabs
July 1st, 2008 at 8:40 pm
I have the same problem (WinXP machine). Happens at least once a day. I’ve tried to selectively disable extensions. Not success yet. What I noticed is that the search box keeps working.
July 2nd, 2008 at 10:25 pm
I suffer from the same problem running Firefox 3.0 on OSX 10.5.4 (had same issue with 10.5.3). I’ve got the following Add-ons:
Adblock Plus 0.7.5.5
Delucious Bookmarks 2.0.64
PicLens 1.7.0.3458
Web Developer 1.1.6
July 2nd, 2008 at 10:34 pm
I should also mention that Bugzilla has an unconfirmed bug number 438932 concerning this issue. I’m also wondering if it has something to do with the number of tabs I currently have open (46).
July 2nd, 2008 at 11:02 pm
Same problem at least once a day, and I agree it is very annoying, I hope their is a fix soon, for we need the return button! Sheesh
July 2nd, 2008 at 11:15 pm
Thanks for the info Chris, at least they are aware of it now.
Let’s see if it progresses.
July 2nd, 2008 at 11:35 pm
I’ve been having this problem on mac. Pre and post Leopard and with Firefox 2 and post Leopard with ff3
July 5th, 2008 at 7:59 pm
I’ve the same problem
July 6th, 2008 at 5:48 am
Yes - I confirm I’ve had the same problem on OS X 10.5 and Win XP. I believe I’ve even experienced it on my OpenSuse 11.0 machine but I can’t remember for sure.
July 9th, 2008 at 10:47 am
I have same problem of the return key and the little blue go arrow not working on Firefox 3, on OS X 10.5. Its not to do with the number of tabs as it happens to me with none or a few. If you go to the bugzilla page Chris Lamothe has linked to above, and signup, you can Vote for this bug, which might help get it fixed?
July 9th, 2008 at 9:04 pm
I wonder if it’s maybe due to the del.icio.us extension. I hadn’t noticed this problem until today when I installed it. Someone else mentioned they had the del.icio.us extension as well.
July 9th, 2008 at 11:59 pm
Try restarting your system. It’s possible an update has thrown things out of whack.
July 16th, 2008 at 12:29 pm
For Apple:
Goto System Preferences…
Keyboard and mouse
on the bottom click Select (All controls)
It should start working or else try restarting ur machine.
July 18th, 2008 at 3:40 pm
I was just experiencing this, as well. I had the del.icio.us extension installed, disabled it, restarted and it was fixed. But, I’m not sure if just the restart might have corrected it.
July 24th, 2008 at 5:44 pm
I’ve also been experiencing this. A restart of firefox (without disabling any of my plug-ins) seems to have fixed it for the time being.
I also have the delicious toolbar, so let the rumours and conjecture begin…
August 7th, 2008 at 3:42 am
Well, I have been experiencing this problem for quite a while now, it’s really annoying. It happens when I spend a lot of time in firefox without restarting it… I also have the delicious add-on, and restarting fixes the bug, but soon after, it messes up again…
August 7th, 2008 at 7:54 pm
I’ve had the same problem on both my Windows and Mac systems, and especially after visiting a site that requires Java. I was able to reproduce the problem after visiting a particular site. After having read through this thread, I tried disabling my delicious plug-in. Restarted Firefox, went through the same scenario that always created the problem before, and this time, no problem.
Given this, I’m not sure if it is just delicious, or if it is a problem with delicious and web site that require the Java JRE.
August 8th, 2008 at 10:57 am
same here. also have delicious
August 9th, 2008 at 3:59 am
I’m having this problem on Safari and I’m running OS 10.4. Whenever I hit ‘Return’ in the address bar (and in other places, I have to hit it several times before it responds. But I noticed that when I’m writing an email, I cannot hit ‘Return’ to get a carriage return at all. In TextEdit and Word, Return also doesn’t work at all. But if I hit ‘enter,’ that does work. It’s extremely annoying and I cannot figure it out…does anyone know how to solve this problem?
August 15th, 2008 at 2:17 pm
Im also having a similar problem. It doesn’t happen all the time and seems quite random. The problem occurs in firefox search bar, in Mircosoft Word and Excel, and for example if I write an email in google mail. Both enter keys fail to work. It seems to happen for a time and then go away. It is not however a problem with the physical keyboard as the enter key always works on the Vista login screen. I am running Windows Vista Home edition on a less the 1 month old Compaq A905TU laptop. I thought it might be a virus but virus scans/cleans have failed to correct this problem.
Mark.
August 28th, 2008 at 3:29 am
Same problem; OS X 10.5. Had delicious add-on; saw suggestion here that it could be causing; removed it … problem solved! Bye, delicious add-on.
August 29th, 2008 at 6:02 am
but i like the delicious add-on and i use the delicious toolbar buttons pretty often…does anyone know how to fix this problem without getting rid of the add-on altogether?