[Vimperator] Vimperator "hangs" in hint mode

[Martin Stubenschrott]

On Tue, Sep 18, 2007 at 11:15:20PM +0200, Thomas Svensen wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> first of all, thanks for putting together a very cool and 
> useful addon to Firefox. It replaces at least five other
> addons that I used to have, and adds lots of very groovy 
> stuff in addition.
> 
> But, I have an issue which occurs regularly, and I wonder 
> whether it's only my installation or a general problem/bug:
> Vimperator tends to "hang" in "hints mode", especially if I
> press "f" before a page has loaded completely. The command
> line reads "-- HINTS (quick) --" and the hints are shown,
> but they don't work and neither does most other keys. The
> expection is CTRL-N/P for next/previous tab, which still
> work. Pressing ESC, "f" or any other key doesn't help. The
> only remedy is restarting Firefox. 
> 
> Does this happen to other users also?
> Is there some way of "restarting" just Vimperator without
> a full restart (which takes ~1 minute...)?

https://www.mozdev.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=17726

Answers both questions ;)