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Firefox 8, Gmail chat issue; It ceased working, i can not type in the chat window, although i can get text that is sent to me. ideas?

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There seems to be some problem with the Gmail chat the chat window field in which i type the message seems to not work i can click on it but can not type even tried opening the chat message in a new pop up window and typing there, same result. wont let me type Although i can see text being sent to me Think its been happening since ive upgraded to FF8

There seems to be some problem with the Gmail chat the chat window field in which i type the message seems to not work i can click on it but can not type even tried opening the chat message in a new pop up window and typing there, same result. wont let me type Although i can see text being sent to me Think its been happening since ive upgraded to FF8

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Try to disable Adblock Plus on mail.google.com, worked for me. (Click the ABP stop sign on the bottom of your page, select "disable on mail.google.com").

EDIT: there's a cleaner solution.. It seems it's a list issue, rather than an ABP issue.. click the ABP icon, go to preferences, click on filters in the menu, and click "update all subscriptions". Once I did that and restarted Firefox, I could reactivate ABP on the gmail page and chat still worked.

Hope this helps! :)

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Chosen Solution

Try to disable Adblock Plus on mail.google.com, worked for me. (Click the ABP stop sign on the bottom of your page, select "disable on mail.google.com").

EDIT: there's a cleaner solution.. It seems it's a list issue, rather than an ABP issue.. click the ABP icon, go to preferences, click on filters in the menu, and click "update all subscriptions". Once I did that and restarted Firefox, I could reactivate ABP on the gmail page and chat still worked.

Hope this helps! :)

Modified by Sorvin

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Thanks Sorvin Worked like a charm :)

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Although the solutions enables sending messages, moving via the arrow cursors, within the written text [for example;correcting a typo in a previously written sentence] does not work.