Wonky Firefox 68.0.1esr Upgrade

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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 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”
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MzK

3 thoughts on - Wonky Firefox 68.0.1esr Upgrade

  • Problem solved from kuna236 on Reddit discussion…(see comments)

    https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/cbnesc/firefox_68_password_field_blinks/

    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!

    — details from kuna236—

    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.

    — end details —

    “And in the end, only kindness matters.”
    — Jewel, “Hands”
    ______
    MzK

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  • 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.