I just applied a bunch of updates to my CentOS 7 system yesterday, one of which was a Firefox update to 68.0.1esr.
Now when I bring up sites I would log in to -- my bank, credit cards, etc., the Password box is wonky and shakes and doesn't display successive dots for characters I type, nor does it accept what I type. My work around currently is to type the password first, then my userid but ???!!!!! Using either a <tab> to get to the Password box or just a click in the Password box causes the same results.
Previous Firefox version which worked fine --firefox-60.8.0-1.el7.centos.x86_64
HELP!
Apparently, this is a "known" FF issue...
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1264837
"And in the end, only kindness matters." -- Jewel, "Hands" ______ MzK
On 10/24/19 10:19 AM, Kay Schenk wrote:
I just applied a bunch of updates to my CentOS 7 system yesterday, one of which was a Firefox update to 68.0.1esr.
Now when I bring up sites I would log in to -- my bank, credit cards, etc., the Password box is wonky and shakes and doesn't display successive dots for characters I type, nor does it accept what I type. My work around currently is to type the password first, then my userid but ???!!!!! Using either a <tab> to get to the Password box or just a click in the Password box causes the same results.
Previous Firefox version which worked fine --firefox-60.8.0-1.el7.centos.x86_64
HELP!
Problem solved from kuna236 on Reddit discussion...(see comments)
https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/cbnesc/firefox_68_password_field_b...
FYI. For just testing, I copied my new firefox.desktop from /usr/local/share/applications to my local Desktop folder, and gave it a new name. Did not do the update-desktop-database yet. (Original firefox.desktop file in /usr/share/applications.) All good!
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For anyone else out there trying to modify their |.desktop| file, I copied my |/usr/share/applications/firefox.desktop| to |/usr/local/share/applications/| and prepended |env GTK_IM_MODULE=xim| to the |Exec=| lines.
|Exec=env GTK_IM_MODULE=xim firefox %u |
Then ran |sudo update-desktop-database|.
I struggled for a little while because I forgot to include |env| in my |Exec|, and Firefox stopped showing up in my applications menu. Figured I'd post it here in case anyone else was making the same mistake.
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"And in the end, only kindness matters." -- Jewel, "Hands" ______ MzK
On 10/26/19 3:09 PM, Kay Schenk wrote:
Apparently, this is a "known" FF issue...
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1264837
"And in the end, only kindness matters." -- Jewel, "Hands" ______ MzK
On 10/24/19 10:19 AM, Kay Schenk wrote:
I just applied a bunch of updates to my CentOS 7 system yesterday, one of which was a Firefox update to 68.0.1esr.
Now when I bring up sites I would log in to -- my bank, credit cards, etc., the Password box is wonky and shakes and doesn't display successive dots for characters I type, nor does it accept what I type. My work around currently is to type the password first, then my userid but ???!!!!! Using either a <tab> to get to the Password box or just a click in the Password box causes the same results.
Previous Firefox version which worked fine --firefox-60.8.0-1.el7.centos.x86_64
HELP!
A short update on this problem. I just applied patches to bring FF to 68.3.0esr. The flickering is still there, a bit, but at least I can input COMPLETE passwords when prompted. Oddly the flickering now seems to be more site dependent than previously.
On Thu, Oct 24, 2019 at 10:19 AM Kay Schenk kay.schenk@gmail.com wrote:
I just applied a bunch of updates to my CentOS 7 system yesterday, one of which was a Firefox update to 68.0.1esr.
Now when I bring up sites I would log in to -- my bank, credit cards, etc., the Password box is wonky and shakes and doesn't display successive dots for characters I type, nor does it accept what I type. My work around currently is to type the password first, then my userid but ???!!!!! Using either a <tab> to get to the Password box or just a click in the Password box causes the same results.
Previous Firefox version which worked fine --firefox-60.8.0-1.el7.centos.x86_64
HELP!
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"And in the end, only kindness matters." -- Jewel, "Hands" ______ MzK
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Kay Schenk