[Vimperator] Vimperator "hangs" in hint mode

[Ian Taylor]

Excerpts from Thomas Svensen's message of Tue Sep 18 17:15:20 -0400 2007:
> 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...)?
> 
> Thomas Svensen
> Senior Solutions Architect
> FAST
> 

I'm experiencing the same behavior. 

I've had it happen to me several times and I didn't understand what I
was doing differently. Hopefully, it's just as you said, hitting 'f'
before the page is done loading.

-- 
Ian Taylor, Technical Assistant
Computer Science Computer Engineering
http://www.csce.uark.edu itaylor at uark.edu
University of Arkansas