1245522 - Password protection OSK button is not automatically displayed while focusing a password field

Status: NEW

(Core :: Widget: Win32, defect, P3)

Description

[Vasilica Tamas, QA [:vtamas]]

[Affected versions]:
Firefox 47.0a1 (2016-02-02)
Firefox 46.0a2 (2016-02-03) 
Firefox 45 beta 2
Firefox 44 RC build 3


[Affected platforms]:
Windows 10 64-bit


[Steps to reproduce]
1.Launch Firefox with a clean profile.
2.Navigate to https://login.yahoo.com/
3.Focus the username.
4.Focus the password field.
AR
The Smiley button flickers. For one second it is displayed that button which disable the button lighting.

5.Tap again on password field
AR
The password protection button is displayed.

6.Type something in password field using the osk
AR
The password protection button is replaced by Smiley button.


[Expected result]:
The OSK Smiley button is automatically replaced by password protection button while a password field is focused.

Comment 1

[:Gijs (he/him)]

Neat. This, too, happens also if we disable our own on-screen keyboard stuff (see also bug 1211234). However, it doesn't happen in Edge. It'd be good if we figured out what was going on here, but I don't really know what that could be...

Comment 2

[Sylvestre Ledru [:Sylvestre]]

Moving to p3 because no activity for at least 1 year(s).
See https://github.com/mozilla/bug-handling/blob/master/policy/triage-bugzilla.md#how-do-you-triage for more information