1338246 - Typing in a space when having selected a dropdown list causes list to open

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1305282

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[fhgnne]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:49.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/49.0 SeaMonkey/2.46
Build ID: 20161213183751

Steps to reproduce:

I select a dropdown list in a standard html form (list not open!). The dropdown list contains entries with a comma.
To select the correct entry (~ 1000 items) I type in the first characters of the entry. One if these characters is a comma.


Actual results:

When typing in the comma, the list opens (drops down). Now only the first character is selected.


Expected results:

The list must not drop down. I was able to type in the item in earlier versions (in even ancient versions this worked). So this is considered to be a bug. In Microsoft Edge, this is still working.

Comment 1

[fhgnne]

Sorry, typo - it's not comma, it's the space bar that triggers the dropdown. But the effect is still an unuable browser for my purposes

Comment 2

[Rainer Bielefeld]

@reporter, please:
a) Contribute a problem related step by step instruction containing every 
   key press and every mouse click how to reproduce your problem due to 
   <https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/QA/Bug_writing_guidelines>
   (similar to report in Bug 1139273)
b) Attach screenshots with comments if you believe that that might explain the 
   problem better than a text comment. Best way is to insert your screenshots
   into a OOo or LibreOffice DRAW document and to add comments 
   that explain what you want to show (attach .png or PDF from source document)
c) add information 
c1) concerning your Operating System (Language)
c2) concerning your SM localization (UI language, Locale setting)
c3) SM settings that might be related to your problems 
    May be you should attach a copy of menu 
   'Help → Trouble shooting information”' as a text document
c4) how you launch SM (Double click on document? console? …)
c5) Whether problem persists in Safe Mode without add-ons
c6) Whether problem persists with blank new profile
d) A sample URL or a sample document with which we can reproduce the problem

Comment 3

[fhgnne]

To show the error:
d) simple sample: (enter in any online html editor and run it)
<input name="test">
<select>
<option>AName, ABC</option>
<option>BName, ABC</option>
<option>CName, ABC</option>
<option>DName, ABC</option>
<option>FName, ABC</option>
<option>Name, ABC</option>
<option>Name, ABD</option>
<option>Name, ABF</option>
</select>
a)
- click into the text field so that the cursor shows up
- press tab to jump into the dropdown field
- You want to select the entry "Name, ABF" so you type with focus on the dropdown list:
N
a
m
e
,
===> up to here: everything okay, the "first" entry starting with "Name," is selected
now the "space" key after the comma
===> the dropdown list opens (WHY???)
proceed typing:
A
===> the entry "AName, ABC" is now selected!
B
F
===> the entry "AName, ABC" is still selected!
I tested it on older seamonkey versions, there it selects "Name, ABF". Same on Firefox and Edge.
c1) OS is Win10 64 bit, german
c2) Seamonkey is english
c5) has no effect, same result as described above

Comment 4

[Rainer Bielefeld]

I reproduced the effect, more investigation tomorrow!

Comment 5

[Rainer Bielefeld]

f) for me the behavior of <space> starts with 2.46 (opens list), until SM 2.45
   <space> seems to do nothing
g) This one might be related to or DUP of or related to "Bug 1305282 - Pressing "space" key when focus is in a select menu open it instead of going to the first option which have a space"
h) I searched for DUPs with <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?cmdtype=dorem&remaction=run&namedcmd=DUPs1338246&sharer_id=41036>

@reporter
Can you help me with my question Bug 1305282 comment #18 ?

Comment 6

[Neil Deakin]

Yes, this was fixed in v50 by 1305282. The first comment suggests the reporter filed the bug using v49.

A Seamonkey developer should confirm this.

Comment 7

[Frank-Rainer Grahl (:frg)]

Confirmed. Just checked that this is broken in 2.46 and works with 2.48. So will be fixed in the next release.

Comment 8

[Rainer Bielefeld]

(In reply to Frank-Rainer Grahl from comment #7)
>  works with 2.48. So

Not for me with Installation of  official  en-US SeaMonkey 2.51a1 (NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:54.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/54.0 Build 20170207004355  (Default Classic Theme) on German WIN7 64bit, see Bug 1305282 comment #18, I see the same effects as I described there for FF 54

Comment 9

[Frank-Rainer Grahl (:frg)]

The reported problem is fixed. I did put the sample in comment 3 into:

http://www.onlinehtmleditor.net/

and was able to reproduce the behaviour in 2.46. With 2.48 it just did what the reporter really wanted aka only showing the found value in the field without showing the drop down list.

If you think there is a regression in later versions please reopen. Didn't test 2.51.

Comment 10

[fhgnne]

It's now some time ago and I haven't received any release update that would fix this issue.
How do I get the fix without breaking my current installation?

Comment 11

[Frank-Rainer Grahl (:frg)]

The final 2.48 is being prepared now bug could still be 1 to 2 weeks away if everything goes well.

You can use the beta which should be stable for daily use but please back up your profile:

https://www.seamonkey-project.org/releases/2.48b1

You need to install the final 2.48 manually over it because automatic upgrades from beta to release will not happen. The beta profile will be compatible with the release profile.

Comment 12

[fhgnne]

Okay, there is still no final. I didn't get any updates using the usual way Help => Check for Updates.
Why?

Comment 13

[Frank-Rainer Grahl (:frg)]

You can pick 2.48 from here. With a probability of 95% this is the final build:

https://archive.mozilla.org/pub/seamonkey/candidates/2.48-candidates/build1/win32/

Should appear on the website in the next few days if we don't run into other build problems.

Updates from 2.46 will not work so you need to install the full installer anyway.

Please backup your profile before installing. The build is fine and I tested it myself but there are a lot of changes in the mozilla code which might break older addons.

FRG