I did tonight. I don’t know why… Maybe its just me, or maybe its just the Mac OS X version…. but sometimes, when I try a weird combination of double-click, then ctrl+click (that’s a right-click for you windows folks) on my powerbook to select a word to spell check on a heavily styled/scripted input field, it will sometimes just disappear on me. It’s happened on more than a dozen sites, and seems to affect version 2.x (at least that’s what leads me to do the click-click-ctrl-click that gets me a spell check dictionary).
I’m too lazy to look up a bug report on Mozilla, but I imagine that there is already a bug filed…. but anyway, I was in the middle of a crazy long post on asoboo.com, and this bug happened to me. At least I got this great error message:
Seems like you have discovered a mysterious bug. The details of this have been forwarded to our tech masterminds, so you can sleep easier at night.
Usually I throw the towel in, and either summarize my original, or just not comment/post what I planned on saying. However, tonight, for my initial post on asoboo, I was not going to give up on it (mental note: if a post goes over 2 paragraphs, move it out to a text editor, and copy and paste it back to the site). So in a flash of genius, I used my web development skills, and the excellent, and essential firefox extension: Firebug, to live edit the DOM and change the strangely inserted (i.e. the bug described above) style definition of visibility: hidden; to visibility: visible;
Voilà ! My text was back, and I was happily on my way. In the famous words of Eric Carman: “Kick. Ass!”
Web Devs reading this, comment if you know more about this FF bug.
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