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I'm new to ubuntu and have just installed ubuntu 18.04 and I'm running Firefox which came bundled in the package.

I have a problem were I can't enter a password into the password field on certain websites, example: www.clickstay.com

I have just spent an hour trawling through various suggestions which all sound a bit scary for a new user like installing a deb file suggestion on github and bugzilla. I also tried installing a snap version of firefox.

The only solution that worked was changing the input source in "Language and region" from Ibus to XIM.

...but is this the best solution? Or can anybody suggest an Ubuntu recommended fix from a safe Ubuntu software package source?

rubo77
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Just as a follow up, and solution for anyone looking:

Uninstalling Firefox that came with the installation bundle using the terminal command

sudo apt remove firefox

and then installing the snap version using command

snap install firefox

has fixed the problem I was having.

Many thanks to all who replied

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I had a similar issue when upgrading to Ubuntu 20.04 in May 2020: Pages containing a password field were loading really slow wiht 100% CPU usage for several seconds until the cursor reapeared in the password field.

The reason was the addon for "Grammarly" which worked fine in 19.10. I disabled the addon and everything runs smoothe again

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