Vimperator stops working after switching to another window and back

[jacekn]

To replicate:

• start firefox. Everything works fine
• switch to another window, either using Alt+Tab or using mouse, switch back to firefox
• vimperator no longer works. "t" or "o" do nothing, ":" does not switch to command line mode
• to get vimperator back I can right-click and dismiss the dialog, go to menu and back to the website and few other things
• next time I switch to another window and back to vimperator the problem reoccurs

Ubuntu 14.04
firefox 32.0+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.
Vimperator 3.8.2

[tacy]

me too

use ctrl+t to open new page，can reactivate vimperator

Ubuntu ：12.04.5 LTS
Vimperator up to data
firefox 32.0+build1-0ubuntu0.12.04.1

[seelaman]

same here

Ubuntu 14.04
firefox 32.0+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1
Vimperator 3.8.2

[maxauthority]

Ok all three are Ubutuntu users, so I guess it might have to do with the
Unity window manager? I just tried that on my Fedora box with default gnome
3 and vimperator keeps working just fine.

On Wed, Oct 1, 2014 at 11:50 PM, seelaman notifications@github.com wrote:

same here

Ubuntu 14.04
firefox 32.0+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1
Vimperator 3.8.2

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[fohrums]

confirmed.

regardless of Ubuntu-Unity as i'm using Kubuntu-KDE. Also persisting within Vimperator-3.8.3

Kubuntu: 14.04.1 x64

Firefox: 34.0+build2-0ubuntu0.14.04.1

Vimperator: 3.8.3

[maxauthority]

Can anyone here with the problem test it with gnome 3 desktop/window
manager?

On Fri, Dec 5, 2014 at 2:50 PM, fohrums notifications@github.com wrote:

confirmed.

regardless of Ubuntu-Unity as i'm using Kubuntu-KDE. Also persisting
within Vimperator-3.8.3

Kubuntu: 14.04.1 x64

Firefox: 34.0+build2-0ubuntu0.14.04.1

Vimperator: 3.8.3

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[ArtemZ]

I'm experiencing the same issue on FF35.0 under ubuntu 12.04 w/ unity

[gkatsev]

I've seen this issue occur on several platforms. Another work around seems to be a right click. No need to select anything from the menu. Seems to somehow kick vimperator back into gear.

[pelegm]

Confirming the bug here.

• Ubuntu 14.04.2
• Mozilla Firefox 38.0
• Vimperator 3.9.1-signed

[MaikoID]

Hey guys since the last Firefox update it's almost unusable with the vimperator plugin because every time I need to right click in anywhere on the page to get the vimperator back to work.

• Ubuntu 14.04 x64
• Mozilla Firefox 38.0
  -Vimperator 3.9.1-signed

BR

[ilya-yurtaev]

Confirmed in

• Ubuntu 15.10 x64
• Mozilla Firefox 41.0.1 - Vimperator 3.10.1

[sbdzdz]

Confirmed in

• Ubuntu 15.04 x64
• Mozilla Firefox 43.0.4 - Vimperator 3.10.1.1-let-fixed

[bkcsoft]

Confirmed in

• Archlinux (updated 2016-01-09)
• Mozilla Firefox 43.0.1 - Vimperator 3.10.1.1-let-fixed

Sure way to kill it is opening google.com, right-click fixes it await

[bheinzerling]

Confirmed in

• Ubuntu 15.10 with Unity
• Firefox 44.0.1
• Vimperator 3.11.3

[mkohler]

I just hit this problem today, using:

• Ubuntu 14.04 with Unity
• Firefox 44.0.2
• Vimperator 3.11.3 and 3.12.0

I've been using Ubuntu 14.04 with vimperator for a long time, so I don't understand why some people started hitting this bug over a year ago, and today was the first day I ran into it.

Right-click-and-Esc fixes the problem for me, and is on its way to my muscle memory.

To be clear, to reproduce this problem 100% of the time all I do is:

• Alt-tab away from Firefox.
• Alt-tab back to Firefox.

Once back in Firefox:

• 't' command to open a new tab doesn't work.
• 'd' command to delete a tab doesn't work.
• Ctrl-n and Ctrl-p to switch tabs does not work. (Ctrl-n opens a new window and Ctrl-p opens the print dialog.)
• 'j' and 'k' to scroll does not work.

But if I right-click-and-Esc, all of the those commands start working again.