On Boon (Ubuntu 10.04 64), Firefox started behaving oddly two days ago. This is a new installation of Ubuntu, but it was originally working fine. The symptoms are:
- Delicious add-on is missing from the main menu
- Copy, Cut and Paste keyboard shortcuts don’t work
- Tab doesn’t move between fields
I was all kinds of confused. Finding what happened took quite a long time. The first thing I noticed was the missing menu item. I use Delicious constantly and I’m keyboard biased, so this I noticed right away. After using the toolbar icon, I noticed none of my bookmarks were there. The other two symptoms I noticed shortly after. It was initially hard to believe what I was experiencing and didn’t put it together that these things were related. I tried tab in other applications and found that worked. That narrowed it down to a Firefox problem. A web search found a report of a problem with the Delicious add-on. There’s no fix yet, but the work arounds are to either disable the add-on or load an older version, which is what I did.
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