On Dec 14, 2009, at 9:30 AM, Bryan Lockwood wrote:

I fired up Firefox (the command-line version, so I could specify -jssh and use watir) and found the following complaint.

firefox-bin[1614:903] Can't open input server /Users/bryanloc/Library/InputManagers/Edit in TextMate

Looking in my console log, I find scads of messages to this effect.

Can anyone tell me how to fix this problem?

The short answer is “Input Managers are going away. Don’t use them.”

Some other things that might help:

* An Input Manager is loaded into every application, whether you need it there or not * Input Managers only work in Cocoa apps. Firefox is Carbon, so they will never work there. With that in mind, I don’t know why the system would even attempt to load it, but perhaps this explains the error. * If you’re using Snow Leopard, 64-bit apps don’t support Input Managers at all (but since Firefox is still hobbling along on MacOS 9 technology, I wouldn’t expect it to go 64-bit any time soon)