They did a good job with the Maps once it was out of Beta so may be the mail will improve. I might be going back to Yahoo!Mail since it looks like My Way is eating my messages (says I have new mail, but the in box is empty).

Have you ever thought of using Google’s GMail?

I could not click back into the name, website fields for the poster id.

I posted, then came back. Now I can get in the fields, but my apostrophe key is not working, my arrow keys and home, end, and forward-slash keys are not working!

I would blame it on my system-drivers, but it happens on my desktops (3) and laptop (2) systems of various models and manufacturers.

I would blame it on my Firefox extensions but it even happens on a “clean” build with no extensions or themes loaded. Grrrrr.

If I hit the forward-slash key, Firefox is launching the “find” tool bar at the bottom. Hmmmm.

Surely I am not alone in seeing this behavior am I?

If I open, say, Notepad, and paste something into it, then re-copy it back into a Firefox form-field, the keyboard returns to normal. Strange…..

I posted some of the “about:config” tweaks I tracked down that have helped manage the Firefox memory issues more efficiently (on my systems at least).

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There is some additional dialog on the subject under the comments of that post as well.

I think that these should also apply to the Firefox 2.0 version as well, according to the MozillaZine Knowledge Base articles.

I’ve been noticing a tendency for my control-key/arrow keys on my laptops/desktops to stop working while in various builds of Firefox lately. It’s a real pain when I’m trying to copy/paste simple text from various sites and then I can’t. It seems to be an intermittent issue as sometimes it works on the same page and other times it doesn’t. Anyone else running into this issue, lately? I think it began with one of the recent patches to Firefox…..

They did a good job with the Maps once it was out of Beta so may be the mail will improve. I might be going back to Yahoo!Mail since it looks like My Way is eating my messages (says I have new mail, but the in box is empty).

I’m surprised you’re not using GMail, any particular reason?

The memory leaks have definitely gotten better in Firefox 2 which is very nice. You have to remember that it could be one of your extensions causing the memory leak as well. If that is a frequent problem that you are having then maybe you should start with a fresh installation.