1497915 - Tapping on a word from the autocomplete form pop-up doesn't search the term

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: General, defect, P3)

Description

[Stefan Deiac]

Environment: 
Device: Samsung Galaxy Tab S3 (Android 8.0), Huawei MediaPad M2 (Android 5.1.1), Google Pixel (Android 9) Google Pixel XL (Android 9);
Build: Nightly 64.0a1 (2018-10-10);

Steps to reproduce:
1. Go on google.com;
2. Write something on the search field (ex. mozilla);
3. Select a text from the autocomplete form pop-up.

Expected result:
Tapping on a word from the autocomplete form pop-up does the search on the term.

Actual result:
Tapping on a word from the autocomplete form pop-up doesn't search the term.

Notes:
Also, after step 3 if you tap the search button from keyboard doesn't search the term.

Comment 1

[Marcia Knous [:marcia]]

Stefan: Can you please test on the most recent versions of Firefox to see if this can be reproduced? For now marking this as a P1 as this scenario should work.

Comment 2

[Stefan Deiac]

Hi Marcia, I can confirm this issue on the latest version of Nightly 66.0a1 (2018-12-18) and Release 64.0.1 using Samsung Galaxy Tab S3 (Android 8.0) and Google Pixel (Android 9).
Note: The search is possible only if you tap on the magnifying glass of the search bar.

Comment 3

[Kevin Brosnan [Ex-Mozilla]]

Google has had this behavior for as long as I can remember. We don't get the same Google search site on mobile as Chrome. We would need to check with the Mozilla-Google mailing list to understand what the expected behavior is.

Comment 4

[Liz Henry (:lizzard) (privacy/fingerprinting team)]

Adam, can you check in with Google about this issue? Thanks!

Comment 5

[Adam Stevenson [:adamopenweb]]

Hey thanks Liz. I think this is a duplicate of https://github.com/webcompat/web-bugs/issues/14247.

We haven't received a response to this one so far, but I will follow up.

Since Bugzilla won't let me close this as a duplicate of a Github report, closing as Incomplete.