Message field has become extremely problematic. | Headphone Reviews and Discussion - Head-Fi.org

runswithaliens · Sep 29, 2010 at 12:24 AM

Currently using the latest version of Firefox on Windoze 7. The cursor no longer shows up in the Message field. If I click out of the box then try to get back into the box to type some more it becomes nearly impossible to continue and usually ends up deleting everything I have typed so far. Just for this post I have had to start over already from the beginning due to this issue. Gave up earlier on two different attempts to post a reply in the forums and also trying to create a new issue. I don't think anything has changed on my computer to cause this issue.

Edit: Just as a test I clicked on Edit and while editing I can actually see and use the cursor so there is that.

Hero Kid · Sep 29, 2010 at 2:47 AM

Yeah I OCCASIONALLY get the bug you are talking about. Whenever it happens try clicking "Source" then unclick it - solves it for me.

krmathis · Sep 29, 2010 at 9:30 AM

Same issue here! No cursor

Maxvla · Sep 29, 2010 at 12:53 PM

Happened to me while typing this reply... I'm getting it about 50% of the time. Firefox, Win 7 all up to date.

Hero Kid · Sep 29, 2010 at 6:24 PM

Have you tried my "solution"? The bug is there none the less but it's a quick work around.

krmathis · Sep 30, 2010 at 10:34 AM

This is REALLY annoying!
The only "real" way for me to reply to posts is to write the reply in a text editor, then copy/paste into the reply field.

As the reply field:
* No cursor
* No line shifts (Enter button do nothing)
* No way to move left/right and edit text
* No spellcheck

Running Camino 2.1a1pre on Mac OS X 10.6.4.

How about just bring back the BBCode editor - which in 7 years caused us no such problems.

Maxvla · Oct 3, 2010 at 11:57 PM

Now I have to do the 'source' trick every single time I want to post, including this one. 100% fail.

Hero Kid · Oct 4, 2010 at 2:27 AM

Yeah sasme problem with me. If it hasn't already happened I'll open up a thread :/

rhythmdevils · Oct 4, 2010 at 4:05 PM

same problem here- everything the krmathis mentioned. I only have one go at it, or I have to just use the delete button letter by letter to get back, or reload the page and start over...

I'm using a mac, with firefox and all the latest and greatest

tuoppi · Oct 13, 2010 at 2:39 PM

I am having lots of problems with the message field too.
Posting images doesn't work ("A temporary error occurred. Please retry your request."). Posting Youtube videos doesn't work (a rectangle appears with no video in it). The cursor disappears like mentioned above.