Closed Bug 812816 Opened 12 years ago Closed 12 years ago

Arrow keys don't position the cursor when typing a URL on Android awesome bar

Categories

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: Keyboards and IME, defect)

Product:
Firefox for Android Graveyard
Component:
Keyboards and IME
Version:
17 Branch
Platform:
ARM
Android
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
RESOLVED WORKSFORME

People

(Reporter: firefoxnandroiduser, Unassigned)

Details

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:13.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/13.0.1
Build ID: 20120614114901

Steps to reproduce:

1. Opened Firefox on my Droid 4 running Android 4.1.2
2. Tapped the location bar/awesome bar
3. Started typing. I used the arrow keys (left & right arrow) to try and correct mistakes


Actual results:

Focus was lost from the text input area and the "Top Sites," "Bookmarks," and "History" tabs cycled focus instead.


Expected results:

The text caret/cursor should've been repositioned to the left or right, as it's a text entry area. As it is currently is non-intuitive, is inconsistent with all other Android apps. It will be encountered by anyone using not just a hardware keyboard, but anyone who has a 3rd-party software keyboard that has arrow keys.
OS: Linux → Android
Hardware: x86_64 → ARM
This might be fixed on Nightly. Can you verify? (http://nightly.mozilla.org)
Component: Awesomescreen → Keyboards and IME
Woo! You're right, Aaron. It is fixed in Nightly. As long as the focus is set in the text area you can use the cursor keys to modify the URL. Thanks for the quick response.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 12 years ago
Resolution: --- → WORKSFORME
Product: Firefox for Android → Firefox for Android Graveyard
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