1002578 - [Flatfish][Browser] Entering username on many sites, odd characters invisible until next character is typed

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox OS Graveyard :: Gaia::Browser, defect)

Description

[Richard Pappalardo [:rpapa][:rpappalardo]]

When typing username to authenticate on many websites (i.e. drive.googel.com, tunein.com, all odd characters typed are invisible until I type the next character.
For example, entering my username, I'd see:
1. 
2. rp
3. 
4. rpap
typing backspace (delete on Mac), has the same effect (deleting two characters at a time).

Comment 1

[Théo Chevalier]

Can't reproduce on latest 2.1 build on drive.google.com.
What characters are the "odd characters typed"?

Comment 2

[Richard Pappalardo [:rpapa][:rpappalardo]]

not "odd" in the sense of "strange" but odd in the sense of odd/even. 

As I mentioned in the example above,
For example, entering my username, I'd see:
1. <blank>   # I type the character "r", but nothing appears
2. rp        # I type the character "p", and now "rp" suddenly appears
3. <blank>   # I type the character "a" and nothing appears
4. rpap      # I type the character "p" and "rpap" appears

Comment 3

[Théo Chevalier]

Oh my bad, ok I get it now.

Hm, it seems it's been fixed on (at least) 2.1, if I go to drive.google.com and start typing, I got the correct behavior:
1. <blank>
2. r
3. rp
4. rpa
5. rpap

However I have no idea if it should be considered as a 2.0 or 1.4 blocker.
(Needs to be confirmed on 2.0, builds are unusable on Flatfish)

Comment 4

[Richard Pappalardo [:rpapa][:rpappalardo]]

Great!
I've built for phones & B2G desktop, but not yet for tablet (which I'd like to update so I can do further testing).  Do we use the same build just add a different flag for Flatfish?  or, better yet, is there a place from where we can download a binary?

Comment 5

[Théo Chevalier]

Yes, we have nightly builds from Foxconn, more info here https://wiki.mozilla.org/FirefoxOS/TCP/Flashing_your_device/

We may also have gecko/gaia OTA on ftp.mozilla.org soon.

For custom builds, you can find instructions here https://wiki.mozilla.org/FirefoxOS/TCP/Patching