253709 - Autocomplete dropdown popup placed on top left of screen after clicking on elements in a site.

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Firefox :: Address Bar, defect, P3)

Description

[Ger Teunis]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040729 Firefox/0.9.1+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040729 Firefox/0.9.1+

The dropdown of the search widget is dropping down after clicking on content in
a site.

I can triggered it when www.google.com is visited AND a link is selected from
the bookmarks toolbar.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open a new Firefox window.
2. browse to www.google.com
3. do not click on anything right now (important).
4. click on a bookmark on your bookmarks toolbar
5. leftclick anywhere on the site

Actual Results:  
The search widget dropdown is show on the top-left of your screen.
Clicking an entry will crash firefox.

Expected Results:  
No search widget dropdown on top-left of screen

Comment 1

[Ger Teunis]

Attachment: Screenshot op Internet Seach dropdown

Comment 2

[Bradley Chapman (not reading bugmail, still gone but not forever)]

Not confirmed.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040727
Firefox/0.9.1+ (MOOX-AV)

Comment 3

[John Johnston]

Confirmed
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040730
Firefox/0.9.1+

Comment 4

[Ger Teunis]

Please take not: use the search widget (on google) at least once to show the bug!

Comment 5

[Francois Ingelrest]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040730
Firefox/0.9.1+

I'm also seeing this.

Comment 6

[Bill Gianopoulos [:WG9s]]

I believe this is a side-effect of the checkin for bug 173569.

Comment 7

[Bill Gianopoulos [:WG9s]]

The severity of this bug needs to be raised as well as clicking on any of the
choices in the phantom dropdown results in a crash.

Comment 8

[Ger Teunis]

(In reply to comment #7)
> The severity of this bug needs to be raised as well as clicking on any of the
> choices in the phantom dropdown results in a crash.

If that is the case, perhaps even aviary1.0PR and aviary1.0mac?

Comment 9

[Worcester12345]

Seeing it in a current third party build as well:

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040730
Firefox/0.9.1+ (bangbang023)

Comment 10

[Kevin Guffey]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040730
Firefox/0.9.1+

Don't know if anyone else has noticed this...

It only seems to be triggered for me on certain pages in the first tab that
opens with Firefox. i.e., 

go to google
search for something
exit Firefox and restart it
go to www.cnn.com or http://forums.mozillazine.org/index.php?c=4
click on links, the dropdown pops up on my screen

If I open a new tab and close the first one that opened with Firefox and go to
the same pages in the new tab, I don't get the dropdown anymore from then on
apparently.

Also, I did not notice the dropdown popping up when I go to espn.com or
slashdot.org in the first tab after Firefox is started.

Comment 11

[Bill Gianopoulos [:WG9s]]

re comment #7 The talkback incident for a case of the crash mentioned is here:

http://talkback-public.mozilla.org/talkback/fastfind.jsp?search=2&type=iid&id=443679

Comment 12

[Markus Lindström]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040731 
Firefox/0.9.1+

This is worse than expected. This isn't only affecting the search widget, it
just happened to me on a standard issue form on a Web site, it's autocompletion
values appeared at the top left corner! Not a pretty sight... ;-)

Anyway, since this doesn't seem to affect the Search widget specifically, I'm
changing Component to Autocomplete, also changing Summary to something more apt
(replacing "Search widget" to "Autocomplete").

Comment 13

[Bill Gianopoulos [:WG9s]]

Could someone with the required authority please change the severity of this bug
to critical?  It causes crashes so the curent "normal" severity is inappropriate.

Comment 14

[chris hofmann]

bryner can you have a look?

Comment 15

[:deanis74]

I'd check this out, except my build box is somewhere on a truck on the way to
Toronto.  I probably won't be set up for another week at least.

Comment 16

[Ryuichi KUBUKI]

I got crash selecting an item in the pop-up at nternetSearchDataSource::ParseHTML.
I got it on a trunk build.

Incident ID: 458409
(http://talkback-public.mozilla.org/talkback/fastfind.jsp?search=2&type=iid&id=458409)

Comment 17

[Bill Mason]

*** Bug 254208 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 18

[Adam Hauner]

(In reply to comment #7)
> The severity of this bug needs to be raised as well as clicking on any of the
> choices in the phantom dropdown results in a crash.

Bug 243432 and bug 254307 should be related, both with 
nsFormFillController::OnTextEntered signature.

Comment 19

[José Jeria]

*** Bug 254551 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 20

[Bill Mason]

*** Bug 254850 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 21

[Ben Goodger (use ben at mozilla dot org for email)]

If this is a regression caused by 173569 then we should back out the fix for
that until it can be made to work correctly.  

Comment 22

[:deanis74]

My build box is still in a box on a moving truck somewhere, but I have an idea.
 I think I missed a condition in nsFormFillController::MouseDown.  Can someone
try changing

  if (targetInput && targetInput != mFocusedInput) {

to
  if (!targetInput || (targetInput && targetInput != mFocusedInput)) {

or something along those lines?

Comment 23

[Thorsten Peter]

either way, it would be great if this would be fixed as soon as possible.
perhaps it's only me thinking this way, but this is really the ONLY really
annoying and obvious bug in firefox right now. this one is keeping me from
further nightly testing, since this popup box pops right in to my face in every
ff session. and disabling form history is not really an option people can live
with in my opinion :-/
i am not a dev, so don't get me wrong guys, you re doing a really great job.
just my 2 cents :-)

take care and keep up the great work

Thorsten

Comment 24

[Ben Goodger (use ben at mozilla dot org for email)]

hm... I can't reproduce this anymore. I'll try again in the morning after I
reboot windows and try dean's suggestion

Comment 25

[Thorsten Peter]

(In reply to comment #24)
> hm... I can't reproduce this anymore. I'll try again in the morning after I
> reboot windows and try dean's suggestion

what build are u using? i am currently running 08042004 branch, with moox
optimizations, anyways it didnt matter if i use official branch or optimized. 

- make sure u create some google search history with the ff builtin search bar
- set your home page to "www.google.com" close FF, restart
- use the top right FF icon to go to FF product page, click on SUPPORT link

-> popup 

Thorsten

Comment 26

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+2] (away 07/21 - 08/08)]

Still visible with Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7)
Gecko/20040809 Firefox/0.9.1+ 

Google doesn't work for me. Instead i noticed it on following site:
http://imkhp2.physik.uni-karlsruhe.de/~fzk-mast/mast.html

Before you test create a bookmark to this site and restart FF. Then click on
temperatur (aktuell) and the box will be visible. I can prevent the showing of
the autocomplete drop-down by disabling the extension prefbar. I don't know why
it is possible, but i can reproduce it every time here.

Comment 27

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+2] (away 07/21 - 08/08)]

(In reply to comment #25)
> - make sure u create some google search history with the ff builtin search bar
> - set your home page to "www.google.com" close FF, restart
> - use the top right FF icon to go to FF product page, click on SUPPORT link

I can confirm. But this will be happen only once within a session. If it won't
be visible restart FF.

Comment 28

[Oakwine]

Until there is a patch, has anyone found a way to clear the dropdown popup
without crashing the browser?

Comment 29

[Thorsten Peter]

(In reply to comment #28)
> Until there is a patch, has anyone found a way to clear the dropdown popup
> without crashing the browser?

what do you mean with clear? it disappears when you click on the titlebar of FF
window, other than that you still can disable form history in options or clear
it there...

Thorsten

Comment 30

[Ben Goodger (use ben at mozilla dot org for email)]

Dean, I tried that and it worked. Checked in. Fixed, br & trunk. 

Comment 31

[Bill Mason]

*** Bug 255534 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 32

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+2] (away 07/21 - 08/08)]

v. with Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040814
Firefox/0.9.1+ 

Comment 33

[timeless]

*** Bug 256351 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 34

[Pablo Lillia]

Autocomplete dropdown popup placed on top left of screen is still here,
but without crash.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; es-AR; rv:1.8.1.3)
Gecko/20070309 Firefox/2.0.0.3

Confirmed. Seen in various PCs. Seen in previous version too. Sometimes
on address location. Sometimes on input forms. Not fixed in 2.0.0.3 yet!!

Usually fail just after startup, and then it works well later. But it
comes back time to time. I'm not sure about the events sequence, but
it's still here. Very weird bug.