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I have just been entering a comment, pressed CTRL-Z a few times in order to improve the wording, and suddenly my comment disappeared (or used white text color, whatsoever).

When trying to re-enter the comment (or to comment on a different question), still the text dows not appear (or in an invisible color).

The problem just disappeared after closing and restarting Firefox.

Is this a known StackExchange bug?

(And if so, does anyone mind?)

edited Dec 2 at 20:40

asked Dec 2 at 12:49

Volker Barth
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	Couldn't withstand from re-tagging:) – Volker Barth Dec 2 at 16:51
	dead-chicken is an EXCELLENT tag, it will have many uses! – Breck Carter Dec 4 at 11:36

Breck Carter · Answer 1 · 2009-12-02 15:37:35Z UTC

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Have you waved a dead chicken over the keyboard? (seriously, don't anyone vote this answer up)

FWIW I have experienced an increasing number of Firefox bugs lately, plus stuff that just does not work in FF but is OK in IE8. So it might be SQLA, it might be FF... I still use FF as my main browser but that's looking more and more like too lazy to switch on my part.

...and don't anyone go quoting their horrible IE6 experiences to me, IE8 is not your grandfather's browser :)

answered Dec 2 at 15:37

Breck Carter♦♦
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I'm running sqla in chrome at windows, and firefox at mac. With no issues on both. – Zote Dec 2 at 16:03

Guess I treat my question as "primarily for the record"...and as to the chicken, that's seems invisible, too:) – Volker Barth Dec 2 at 16:49

@Breck: Thanks for removing the single tags "dead" and "chicken" that I had generated by accident. Of course these are only relevant for SQLA when used together. - Anyone wants to google for "dead chicken Breck"? That might give even more results than "stealth Kleisath":) – Volker Barth Dec 3 at 16:10

@Volker: I removed nothing, I don't think direct deletion is possible... I'm betting they got dropped when the last usage was dropped. I'm wayyyy behind on my administrative duties, for what that's worth. – Breck Carter Dec 4 at 11:34

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@Volker: ON DELETE CASCADE isn't creepy enough for you? You want ON DELETE ANNIHILATE FAMILY? :) – Breck Carter Dec 8 at 15:33

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Kumar · Answer 2 · 2009-12-27 09:30:12Z UTC

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Instead of using the answer option, is it possible to use the "add comment" option? Or is that available only after posting an answer? I will see it now :)

answered Dec 27 at 9:30

Kumar
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Got it. One can comment only on their answers, otherwise they should own the thread. – Kumar Dec 27 at 9:31

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@Kumar: Once you get 50 "reputation points" you can add comments on everything. And yes, posting a comment is an excellent alternative to posting an actual "answer", it all depends on what YOU want to do, and how you want it to appear. If you want to read about the "philosophy" of this site, read some of the questions posted by me and tagged "faq"... you can also read some articles on sqlanywhere.blogspot.com - search on "sqla" – Breck Carter Dec 27 at 9:54

Volker Barth · Accepted Answer · 2010-02-08 13:27:10Z UTC

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It sometimes takes long:

Just found out that typing a capital umlaut turns the edit window in its "invisible state", at least with Firefox 3.5 and above. That's my typical typo when trying to insert an apostrophe because the key is just next to an 'Ä'...

No problem for all ye English users out there, methinks:)

answered Feb 8 at 13:27

Volker Barth
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	To be more precise, it only happens with the capital 'Ä', other umlauts are o.k. – Volker Barth Feb 8 at 13:29
	Trying to add a comment, pressing voluntarily the Ä and then Ctrl-Z did not do something unusual. Repeating the same and stepping back with Ctrl-Z until also the Ä was erased: neither. I'm using FF 3.6 – Reimer Pods Feb 8 at 14:42
	@Reimer: Nor does it on other boxes I have tested. Seems to be a problem on my workplace machine - So no need to bother:) – Volker Barth Feb 9 at 20:33

How come my comment edits are invisible?

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