1576353 - Inset emoji context menu feature of Ubuntu not working on firefox textboxes

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Core :: Widget: Gtk, enhancement)

Description

[k.abhyas]

Attachment: Screenshot of gedit showing the emoji box on ubuntu

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/68.0

Steps to reproduce:

Where it worked (gedit) -

• right click on text space
• click insert emoji
• emoji box appears
  On firefox
• right click on textboxes

Actual results:

Insert emoji option not showing

Expected results:

An insert emoji option and the emoji selection box should have appeared

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/try-color-emoji-in-18-04/1492
according to this page
"In most apps using GTK, you can right-click in a text field and select Insert Emoji to get an emoji chooser. If the app you’re using doesn’t have that option, please file a bug. I already filed one for gedit."

Comment 1

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

Bugbug thinks this bug should belong to this component, but please revert this change in case of error.

Comment 2

[Ricardo Silva Veloso]

Related: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1452036