1629520 - Built-in autocomplete misbehavior

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Toolkit :: UI Widgets, defect, P3)

Description

[u611676]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Android 9; Mobile; rv:68.0) Gecko/68.0 Firefox/68.0

Steps to reproduce:

I removed an item from the terms suggested by the built-in auto complete.
Then I've typed a new string, pressed enter, but the form is not submitted with the string I typed, one of the suggested terms is submitted instead.

Here is a video about it
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1grzeOfu-RsKhBGRQNaLQ2chYlwmmff9p/view?usp=drivesdk

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

[Firefox Bug Husbandry Bot]

Resetting severity to default of --.

Comment 3

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

The priority flag is not set for this bug.
:mstriemer, could you have a look please?

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Comment 4

[Firefox Bug Husbandry Bot]

Because this bug's Severity has not been changed from the default since it was filed, and it's Priority is -- (Backlog,) indicating it has has not been previously triaged, the bug's Severity is being updated to -- (default, untriaged.)

Comment 5

[Mark Striemer [:mstriemer]]

I can't reproduce this. Does it happen on all sites or just on this one?

Comment 6

[u611676]

Does it happen on all sites or just on this one?
Here is another site affected
https://www.brik.co

I think it could depend on the "virtual keyboard" used.
This behavior happens with "Technical Keyboard"
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=nextapp.inputmethod.latin

but not with "SwiftKey Keyboard"
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.touchtype.swiftkey

Comment 7

[u611676]

To clarify: with the "Technical Keyboard", it happens only if I trigger the submit event from the virtual keyboard "enter" button.

Comment 8

[Mark Striemer [:mstriemer]]

So I managed to reproduce this just now using Gboard, it had to be pretty specific to happen.

STR

1. Go to https://snapcraft.io/store
2. Add two autocomplete entries
3. Tap to get autocomplete, swipe one away
4. Submit an empty search with the keyboard search button
5. Tap to get autocomplete, swipe one away
6. Use swipe text input to add something else
7. Submit with the keyboard search button

Comment 9

[Tim Giles [:tgiles]]

:owlish, I'm not sure if this is a toolkit autocomplete issue, a toolkit UI issue, or something in GeckoView or Fenix. Are you able to provide some insight that this isn't a GeckoView issue? We're trying to figure out where this bug belongs (and if it's still valid). Appreciate it!