1044038 - Auto-complete popup prevents double-click select in input fields

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Toolkit :: Form Manager, defect)

Description

[Travis Evans]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:30.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/30.0 (Beta/Release)
Build ID: 20140611075517

Steps to reproduce:

Platform: Arch Linux

Double-clicking in a focused input field to select a word doesn't work if the auto-complete popup menu tries to appear at the same time.

1. Load any page with a single-line text field that enables Firefox's native autocompletion (i.e., no site custom autocomplete popups)
2. Type some text that triggers an autocomplete menu
3. Dismiss the menu, then try to double-click a word just typed to select it (this may take a few tries; it sometimes seems to depend on the exact word or spot clicked)


Actual results:

Autocomplete popup very briefly appears again on first click of the double-click; disappears at the second. No text selected.


Expected results:

Word under cursor should have been selected.

Possible workaround: click somewhere on the page outside the input field so that it loses focus, then immediately double-click the word in the field to be selected.

Comment 1

[[:Aleksej]]

Seems to work for me with the _address bar_ in 2014-07-28-03-02-01-mozilla-central-firefox-34.0a1.en-US.linux-x86_64.

Comment 2

[Travis Evans]

Indeed, I haven't had problems with the address bar.  I should say that it seems to be input forms in web pages that exhibit the problem.  The key seems to be a situation where clicking somewhere in the text field pops up autocomplete for some reason--then, if you try to double-click that word, it's not possible.

Comment 3

[Sergey Galich [:serg]]

I can not reproduce this in 2022, please reopen if the issue still exists.