[X4U] Firefox Bug -- Windows Freezing

[DZ-Jay]

On Apr 28, 2006, at 01:33, Jon Marett wrote:

> On Apr 23, 2006, at 1:24 PM, Vern Andrews wrote:
>
>> Recently, within the past several weeks, something strange has been 
>> happening with Firefox. Windows are freezing, and I have to open up a 
>> new window ..... Here is what happens. I'll have a window open, and 
>> be reading something online. Then when I need to type in something, 
>> like a response to a forum, that window is frozen, and I can't type 
>> anything at all. I have to close that frozen window, and open up a 
>> new window, then I can pick up where I left off.
>>
>> This happens everyday, and appears to only be a problem with Firefox. 
>> I have the newest version of Firefox, 1.5.0.2, which just updated 
>> automatically several days ago. Has anyone else noticed this same 
>> problem? Is there a fix?
>>
>> I'm running Tiger 10.4.6 on my iBook G4. Any ideas? Thanks.
>
> Have you tried a build optimized for the G4? I haven't used it enough 
> to tell the difference myself.
>
> <http://www.beatnikpad.com/archives/2006/04/19/firefox-1502>
>

I'm giving it a shot, thanks!  Hopefully it'll fix a long-standing grip 
I've had with form widgets in Firefox on MacOS: that the <select> boxes 
do not get focus when I "tab" through the page.

	dZ.