quit it! That's annoying!

[forgotten_aria]

Firefox has this annoying thing on my machine. If you click into a text field and don't wait, the first few characters will be eaten by the browser and not the text field. In the most innocent of times, this means that I just have ords ith o irst etter. But when I'm pressing back space, it does to my page history which is REALLY ANNOYING. Does anyone know how to stop this from happening or even why?

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[testing4l.livejournal.com]

Nope! That's been happening to me for a while now.

The only thing I've found to mitigate it ever-so-slightly is to turn off caching in memory via about:config.

I *almost* wish IE could be ported to linux to give Firefox some competition.

[jered]

IE was on Solaris for a while. It was truly wretched.

What about Opera? It runs on Linux and I hear it's pretty good...

[jbsegal.livejournal.com]

Something worth keeping track of with FX is: If your Tools->Downloads menu gets too full, the whole program slows down. Use 'clean up' at the bottom of that dialog to empty it and see if that helps.

[forgotten-aria.livejournal.com]

Hm... mine was full, but that didn't fix the problem. I wonder if there is something simliar I should also clear