1606406 - allow typing in text inputs on options page for extensions

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Toolkit :: Add-ons Manager, defect)

Description

[Carlin Scott]

Attachment: Screen recording of issue

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:71.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/71.0

Steps to reproduce:

1. Open Firefox.
2. View my extensions (about:addons)
3. View details for one of my extensions by clicking on it
4. Type something

Actual results:

Firefox starting search for what I typed on the page

Expected results:

Firefox should have not searched for anything. This is a major issue because some web extensions have text inputs on their options page, and currently we cannot type anything in them. Copy/Paste works though.

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

[Alice0775 White]

[Tracking Requested - why for this release]: If accessibility.typeaheadfind = true, you cannot enter anything in the add-on options textbox

I can reproduce the issue if accessibility.typeaheadfind turn on

STR:

1. Check "Search for text when you start typing" in about:preferences
2. Install an addon e.g. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/media-keys/
3. Open Addons Manager and the extensions option and try to input text in add-on options textbox

Regression window:
https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/autoland/pushloghtml?fromchange=5b303cb0a0a39e2bd4a6fea53535fe8e1d829b97&tochange=e33c3e14ee40f88d1775952e309dc2a617eb97f7

Regressed by: Bug 1553384

Comment 3

[Alice0775 White]

Was fixed by
https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/autoland/pushloghtml?fromchange=90583a5ead34b46c110a78b9f74c2af9a16dafe9&tochange=8a261afd573a9c8b73865e9e10858377a2092aee