The address bar / AutoComplete is locking up.

Everytime I type something my history or bookmarks in the location bar, it displays the first character or two, and then refuses to view the rest of the address of the site that I type and fails to show the results of my history/bookmarks. It shows only what I am typing after I press ESC or click anywhere on the Web page. A similar problem also occurs when I try to pull something together as a Web site, including the forms on this page 'edit a question", except that the AutoComplete results appear and I can use my mouse to select what I wanted to type manually.

I'm guessing that autocomplete is locked for some reason any. However, I have tried to clean the sql databases and even removed the profile folder and reinstalled firefox, nothing helps.

A solution that bothers that I know is to run firefox in safe mode and disable all addons or reset all the preferences of the user by default, which makes the AutoComplete behave exactly as it should until I close firefox. I can reactivate my addons and restart firefox and the address bar will continue to behave properly, but closing and re-opening firefox without using safe mode, even if nothing is changed (addons reactivated, set preferences, etc.), translates the AutoComplete not cooperating again.

This problem started about a month after I had installed Xubuntu to 11.10.

It's been four months now. I am running Firefox 11.0, and the problem is still there. At least, he received no worse or anything like that.
Firefox is the only program on my computer with an AutoComplete feature that locks like that. It's really weird.

Edit: From Xubuntu 12.04, this problem seems to be fixed.
I'll upgrade to Firefox 12 and see if it stays that way.

Edit 2: Running Xubuntu 12.04 & Firefox 12. Problem is solved.

Tags: Firefox

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