1087197 - Weird behavior with using keys on the keyboard (like "W") in online games and feature "Search for text when I start typing"

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Yajo]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:32.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/32.0
Build ID: 20140918134209

Steps to reproduce:

Play a game in full screen, with mouse capture, from the Mozilla Humble Bundle.


Actual results:

When pressing "W" to move forward, Firefox started looking for "wwwwwwww[...]" because I have enabled the option "Look for text as I type" (Settings > Advanced > General > Accesibility).

I had to disable that to play.


Expected results:

Firefox should be smart enough to disable that option while I'm playing. A good criteria would be disabling it if the web page asks for mouse capture.

Comment 1

[Loic]

A similar bug in the past (with WebGL games), see bug 786300.

Comment 2

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Not a DOM issue; this is a UI feature.

That said, the web page in question is buggy: it should be doing preventDefault on those events if it wants to override their default actions....  The interaction will be broken not just with the search-for-text feature but also other shortcut situations.

Comment 3

[:Gijs (he/him)]

(In reply to Boris Zbarsky [:bz] from comment #2)
> Not a DOM issue; this is a UI feature.
> 
> That said, the web page in question is buggy: it should be doing
> preventDefault on those events if it wants to override their default
> actions....  The interaction will be broken not just with the
> search-for-text feature but also other shortcut situations.

Quite. Marking as invalid because this is really a webpage bug. Please reopen if this still doesn't work if the webpage uses preventDefault.