1007698 - keyboard not switching to search mode when entering search terms in url bar

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

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

Description

[Brad Lassey [:blassey] (use needinfo?)]

STR
1) type two words in the url bar (ex. "nhl playoffs")

ER
when you hit the space, the keyboard should switch to search mode

AR
keyboard never switches

Comment 1

[Aaron Train [:aaronmt]]

Last good revision: d7c07694f339 (2014-04-29)
First bad revision: e19812f56952 (2014-04-30)
Pushlog:
https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/pushloghtml?fromchange=d7c07694f339&tochange=e19812f56952

Probably bug 998398

3e0ff6c29303	Jim Chen — Bug 998398 - Don't reset keyboard to change input type. r=wesj

CC'ing Jim

Comment 2

[Mark Finkle (:mfinkle) (use needinfo?)]

Jim - What's the status with switching the 'go' -> 'search'? IIRC you said we removed support.

Comment 3

[(inactive) Jim Chen [:jchen] [:darchons]]

Yeah we removed support. It's always been flaky with different keyboards/keyboard versions.

The original motivation was keeping the keyboard go button in sync with the toolbar go button. Now that the toolbar go button is gone, I think it makes sense to not switch the keyboard button, in exchange for much less fragile code.

Marking as WONTFIX for now.