1656425 - Tab bar suggestion overwrites quickly-typed characters

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1653436

(Firefox :: Address Bar, defect)

Description

[Gerald Squelart (he/him) (not at Mozilla since 2022-09-15)]

Attachment: bar_sugg_overwriting_chars.mov

I was quickly trying to type "whois" [enter] and kept getting directed to another website!
Experimenting a bit, it looks like a suggestion based on some characters gets inserted even after I've typed more characters, erasing these characters.

For example, see the attached video:

• Slowing typing "w", "h", "o" works fine, I can see suggestions after "w" and after "h", but each one gets removed when I type the next letter, as expected.
• Quickly typing "who" (or "whois", "wha", etc.) results in "whistler..." (a website I visited quite a bit 1+ year ago), with the part after "wh" highlighted.

(I did this twice in the video.)

I also found:

• Typing "w" alone gives me "www.facebook.com" (sorry!)
• Typing "w" then "a" writes "wa", with the facebook suggestion in between getting overwritten by my "a", as expected.
• Typing "wa" quickly writes "www.facebook.com", so it lost the 2nd character.

Nightly 80.0a1 (2020-07-20) (64-bit), Windows 10.