rainman wrote:

I can verify that this happens on modern skin using Chrome (but not firefox and IE 6). This doesn't seem to be JavaScript-related since the same problem happens if I run Chrome with javascript disabled, and/or turn off all javascript in user preferences.

It also doesn't seem to be bad html, ran the page through html validator, came out clean.

So... not sure what possible other cause is left, except some strange bug in Chrome.

-d___b- wrote:

This is, Mac or windows of the safari is not only known to only.
By the way, so Japanese, I have something wrong with the word, please.

I can confirm this. It seems that the pagecontent has the focus instead of the searchbox. You can use the accesskey to force the focus to the searchbox, but when you doubleclick the searchfield, you will see that the pagecontent gets selected. Seems like a layout issue. Perhaps z-index...

• This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 19492 ***

-d___b- wrote:

Derk-Jan Hartman's, thank you.
Chad H. says, it's OS is XP I. Mac is different.

Reopen this bug, as I'm not so sure if it is dupe to bug 19492, and this one actually has proper hints to reproduce the problem.

ericjengej wrote:

Not just can not enter text on the left sidebar, but ctrl-dragging text acts the same as solely dragging text. Also IE8 does not have this problem.

It's actually a dupe of this.

• This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 19194 ***