140733 - User stops typing in input box (key depressed for a while), Mozilla doesn't stop inputting characters.

Status: VERIFIED WORKSFORME

(Core :: DOM: Editor, defect)

Description

[Mike Neman]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0rc1) Gecko/20020417
BuildID:    2002041711

When holding down a key --for example-- BACKSPACE to delete a piece of text,
Mozilla keeps deleting a while AFTER the user has lifted its finger off the key.
Also happened with other keys such as normal characters. This has only happened
while using reply-boxes such as those used with forums etc...
NOTE!!
The appended URL is just an example of an input box. It is the site where this
first happened to me.
NOTE #2!!
I can't reproduce this bug. Just as soon as I turned to try it out on another
site it disappeared. It has reoccured sporadically so I decided to report it.


Reproducible: Couldn't Reproduce

Expected Results:  Stopped upon key not being pressed.

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

-> Editor:Core

Comment 2

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

confirmed; this is just a perf issue -- there are keystrokes in the queue
because we don't process them as fast as they come in....

as a note, I cannot reproduce this with a trunk liunx build from this morning,
P3-733 processor.  Mike666, could you try a recent trunk build?  I believe
waterson recently landed some reflow changes that should help this immensely...

Comment 3

[Chu Alan #2]

oops ... i am not seeing delay anymore in URL bar ...
using 2002042621/Linux on PII 350MHz ...

P.S. backspacing is DEAD slow before ... ;)

Comment 4

[John Levon]

No response -> WFM

Comment 5

[sujay]

verified.