1463897 - text boxes unusable in Firefox 60

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Toolkit :: Autocomplete, defect, P5)

Description

[alex.branham]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) QtWebEngine/5.10.1 Chrome/61.0.3163.140 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce:

Since the update to Firefox 60 (including 60.0.1), Firefox has been unusable for me due to some bug(s) in text boxes.

For example, selecting the URL bar lets me type anything I want, but hitting TAB or the down arrow either does nothing or deletes my entered text.

In text boxes on websites (e.g. forms), if they are auto-fillable, then I can only type one letter. For example, I type "e". Then I type "f'. the "f" appears, and deletes the "e". This also affects the vimperator add on I use (vim-vixen).

I've tried uninstalling all addons, nuking my profile, and starting Firefox in safe mode. Nothing helped. For now, I've switched browsers to qutebrowser because Firefox is unusable for any form-filling needs.

If it matters, I'm running a GNU/Linux system.

Comment 1

[Julien Cristau [:jcristau]]

Is some kind of input method involved?

Comment 2

[Stefan [:StefanG_QA]]

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:62.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/62.0 (20180529100118)

I have tested this issue on Ubuntu 16.04 x64 using latest Nightly and Release (60.0.1) build with the installed vim-vixen addon, but I did not manage to reproduce it. I'm able to write in all tested text from without any issue. In addition, the vim-vixen addon is working properly. I`m able to navigate through the pages using the addon short-cuts.

Do you experience this issue on any particular page or all page are affected for you?
Could you provide a short video showing the issue?
Could you provide a list of all addon you have installed for your profile? 

I think the correct component would be Toolkit: Autocomplete. Please change if this is not the right component.

Comment 3

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

Please give more details about your linux distro/windowmanager/desktopmanager and so on. The problem is likely related to that combination and it may not be trivial for us to figure it out anyway, so help from the community would be welcome.

Comment 4

[alex.branham]

Distro: Arch Linux
Windowmanager: EXWM (Emacs X Window Manager)

It seems like it's a bug either in EXWM or X: https://github.com/ch11ng/exwm/issues/435

Comment 5

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

I't unlikely we can find resources to investigate every windowmanager/manager combination, so this is up to the community unless it becomes more common.