I’ve been using WordPress to run this website for a while now and I’ve been pleased with every version upgrade until 2.8.4. I’m having a problem that the “Update Post” and the “Publish” button freezes and I can’t save my recent changes. My only solution is to copy the text from the HTML tab into the clipboard, do a hard refresh (Control-R) and then paste the text back. At that point the buttons start working again. The behavior is unpredictable. Sometimes it freezes after a minute, sometimes ten minutes, sometimes it doesn’t freeze. I use Chrome as my browser.
As a code jockey, I can tell that the problem is with the client-side Javascript. I click a button, Javascript intercepts my request and doesn’t pass along my request to the Form Submit. So I am stuck frozen until I initiate a hard refresh. I’ve never had this problem until the most recent version of 2.8.4.
I searched around to see if anyone else has this problem and turned up nothing. Maybe it is the Chrome browser? Is anyone else experiencing this problem?
UPDATE (Oct 20, 2009): This is a Chrome problem. It does not occur in Internet Explorer.
I’ve not seen any such issues with 2.8.4.
I would guess it’s an issue with Chrome, but have used Chrome to do those actions in the past month.
But my XP machine’s power supply died and using Chrome less and can’t really verify. Same/similar issues in your IE or Firefox?
Sorry I missed this comment. My host had some email issues last week.
FireFox sucks. It is a memory hog and hangs. I’ve disabled every plugin and it is still a dog. It was my favorite browser for years. Sad to see it decline.
IE has a cursor jump problem in the HTML pane of WordPress, but not the problem described in this post.
I need ANOTHER browser!