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neri

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From: Victoria, Canada

Registered: 2003-05-04

Posts: 553

Arrow-keys issue in mozilla-firefox (solved)

Hi,

with the latest release of mozilla-firefox there is an issue which forbids to use the arrow keys within textfields and the location or the google bar. While you can use your mouse to set the pointer/cursor according to your wishes it's just annoying that your arrow keys doesnt work. Unfortunately there is no way t handle that from inside the firefox-package 'cuz the problem is located in the compreg.dat file within your profile. The packages doesn't have access to your private data within ~
So the only proper workaround for that problem is to delete the file which is located in

~/.mozilla/firefox/random.name/compreg.dat

As far as I tested it you won't loose any data according to this, since everything else, such as passwords, bookmarks, cookies, history etc. is stored in other files. Firefox will just create a new compreg.dat and that's it.

-neri