1286741 - clicking on address bar clears the current URL causing no way to copy-and-paste the current URL

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1138159

(Firefox :: Address Bar, defect, P3)

Description

[robinh3123]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/51.0.2704.103 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce:

This happens on Firefox of an Ubuntu 16.04 LTS fresh install.
Steps to reproduce:
1) Visit any website.
2) mouse left-click on the address bar.

Alternative steps:
1) Visit any website.
2) mouse right-click on the address bar.
3) select "select all"


Actual results:

The address bar is cleared to empty.  i.e. The current URL is gone.


Expected results:

The current URL should be selected, or at least should still be there.  Otherwise, there is no way to copy the current URL, for other uses, such as copy-pasting the URL into an email to share with friends.

Comment 1

[robinh3123]

It's strange that it works now. I have done nothing, not even an update of firefox...

Comment 2

[robinh3123]

Now I know how to duplicate it.  It is related to ibus Pinyin input for Chinese input.  In ibus Chinese input mode, it has two sub-mode, namely, English input sub-mode and Chinese input sub-mode.  And yes, you perceive it correctly, since ibus PinYin input support fast switch between Chinese input and English input, it has to provide both sub-mode.

In either sub-mode, when one click on firebox's address bar, it will clear the address bar.
More over in many form field like ubuntu forum, a click in the middle of the input text will erase all the character AFTER the click point.

In other words, it seems to trigger something (like changing encoding or what) when click in some form, causing it to misinterpret as a erase command.

Comment 3

[Loic]

Makoto, could you test if you have a Chinese input, please. Or retriage to someone from QA with this device.

Comment 4

[Makoto Kato [:m_kato]]

If reporter uses ibus-google-pinyin, it is bug 1138159.  But if using fresh 16.04, it will use pinyin-fcitx, so I cannot reproduce this.

robinh3123, what IM module and IM engine do you use?

Comment 5

[robinh3123]

Fresh 16.04 install, default Chinese input IME

Comment 6

[Makoto Kato [:m_kato]]

(In reply to robinh3123 from comment #5)
> Fresh 16.04 install, default Chinese input IME

Please tell me your IM engine and IM module.  At least, Ubuntu 16.04 has the following Chinese input engines. What IM Engine do you use?
- Pinyin
- Shuangpin
- Sunpinyin
- Wubi

Also, I believe that default IM module on Ubuntu is fcitx.  What IM module?  (You can check it by [System Settings] - [Language -Support] - [Keyboard Input method system:])

Comment 7

[robinh3123]

Not quite sure but I think ibus is the default.  And I am using ibus-Pinyin.
As I said, using gedit with ibus-Pinyin has no problem, no erasing of texts.

I plan to re-install ubuntu 16.04, so I will have a chance to see which is the default.
I will be back after that, perhaps in one or two weeks.

Comment 8

[robinh3123]

I have reinstalled my ubuntu 16.04 LTS.  It's weird that when I click on
side-panel-system-settings->Language support, it shows "ibus" as the current one.  However, command "ps auxw" does not show any ibus process.  Thus I think Makoto is right, the default is fcitx.  And that's why I previously believe that the default is ibus.

Anyway, the problem is ibus-pinyin + firefox.

I am not sure if ibus-pinyin == ibus-google-pinyin?  I got this pinyin from "apt install ibus-pinyin".

Comment 9

[Makoto Kato [:m_kato]]

(In reply to robinh3123 from comment #8)
> I have reinstalled my ubuntu 16.04 LTS.  It's weird that when I click on
> side-panel-system-settings->Language support, it shows "ibus" as the current
> one.  However, command "ps auxw" does not show any ibus process.  Thus I
> think Makoto is right, the default is fcitx.  And that's why I previously
> believe that the default is ibus.
> 
> Anyway, the problem is ibus-pinyin + firefox.
> 
> I am not sure if ibus-pinyin == ibus-google-pinyin?  I got this pinyin from
> "apt install ibus-pinyin".

it means ibus-pinyin.  It is same issue as bug 1138159.  When you change from ibus to fcitx, it can resolve this issue.

Comment 10

[robinh3123]

Are you saying that fcitx can handle ibus-pinyin?  Isn't ibus-pinyin for ibus only, as its name suggested?  I will try it tonight.