...it turned out to be a corrupt ext3 root file system!
On 7/12/07, Chris Worley
I've been using both OpenSuSE 10.2 and firefox 2.x successfully for some time now, and just recently ran into a strange problem:
Soon (sometimes very quickly) after launching firefox, left-clicking the tabs does not bring focus to that tab's window. I can right-click on the tab and select the sub-menu option (i.e. close tab, reload tab), I can click the "x" on the tab and close the tab, I can get focus to the tab's window using the menu on the right-hand side of the tabs... I just can't left-click on the tab to bring the tab's window to focus.
There are a few other anomalies that happen at this time too... like gmail (and other but not all pages) won't load/reload, the URL's won't autocomplete, "find" works sporadically.
No other app has this problem.
It seemed to occur after a recent 10.2 auto-update.
So far, I've:
1) Gone through all the standard diagnostics at: http://kb.mozillazine.org/Standard_diagnostic_%28Firefox%29 2) Created a new user from "scratch" ... it happens to them too... it also happens to other users on the system. 3) Downgraded to older versions of both the 2 and 1.5 Firefox series... the problem effects all versions. These were the static versions from the mozilla web site. 4) The Dynamic library firefox version upgraded by OpenSuSE auto-upgrade does the same. 5) When this problem occurs, if I exit all the tabs (without exiting firefox), then start building tabs again, the problem persists. 6) I've run chkrootkit to see if someone's playing with my mind... no cracks. 7) Switched to opera, that works.
Any ideas?
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