1717865 - Radio buttons from the PDF has too many selectable choices

Status: NEW

(Firefox :: PDF Viewer, defect, P2)

Description

[Raluca Popovici, Desktop QA]

Attachment: 4571aef8-c10f-47a6-9db0-34cc3bdf39bc.pdf

Tested with:
Nightly 91.0a1 (2021-06-22)

Tested on:
Win 10

Preconditions:
In about:config, set pdfjs.enableXfa = true

Steps:

1. Launch firefox
2. Open the attached pdf.

Actual result:
Checkboxes from the attached PDF has too many selectable choices.

Expected result:
Checkboxes from the attached PDF should have only one selectable choice as in Adobe

Comment 1

[Raluca Popovici, Desktop QA]

Attachment: nightly.png

Comment 2

[Raluca Popovici, Desktop QA]

Attachment: 2021-06-23_18h25_58.png

Comment 3

[Daniel Bodea [:danibodea]]

Attachment: 702a3385-08d8-4297-ba20-1628fef3de14.pdf

This issue also occurs on the attached PDF file, page 9, "Part E: For completion by Court/Tribunal staff only", sections E2, E4, E5, E6. Interestingly enough, it does not occur in the case of sections E1, E7, E8.

Comment 4

[Daniel Bodea [:danibodea]]

Attachment: both the yes and no checkboxes can be selected.png

Demo for the mention above.

Comment 5

[Daniel Bodea [:danibodea]]

Attachment: 06054e78-fc42-4bfc-9567-6d0f49ccb6ee.pdf

This issue also occurs in the case of the attached PDF, Section 3 on page 2.

Comment 6

[Calixte Denizet (:calixte)]

Checkboxes are not in an exclgroup so it's very likely a matter of action in JS here which can make checkboxes behave like radio buttons.

Comment 7

[Daniel Bodea [:danibodea]]

Recognizing as a generic XFA since the blocking bug is bug 1706133. Please change it if it is related to a dynamic XFA issue.

Comment 8

[Daniel Bodea [:danibodea]]

Attachment: poppler-56913-0.pdf

This issue also occurs in the case of the attached PDF file in section D, point 1 and in Part 2 from page 1 ... and in other places in the document.

Comment 9

[Daniel Bodea [:danibodea]]

Attachment: imm5257e.pdf

The reported issue also occurs on the attached PDF file, at the bottom of page 2, in the "Telephone no.", "Alternative Telephone no." and "Fax no." sections.

Comment 10

[Daniel Bodea [:danibodea]]

Attachment: multiple choices - radiobuttons recognized as checkboxes.png

Comment 11

[Daniel Bodea [:danibodea]]

Attachment: 5b7de8e6-ff99-4238-9004-be8ef2016080.pdf

This issue is also discovered in the attached PDF, page 2, Employed person vs Self-employed person checkboxes/radio buttons.

Comment 12

[Daniel Bodea [:danibodea]]

Attachment: multiple incorrect selectable choices.png

Comment 13

[Daniel Bodea [:danibodea]]

Attachment: 0b6dd7aa-707e-468f-b5af-ce226036dd99.pdf

This issue also occurs in this PDF; basically the same situation as the last attached PDF.

Comment 14

[Squad_Swap]

Hi,
First of all, we would like to know if this issue is still relevant, since it is marked as WONTFIX.
As we use Firefox ESR as our official browser accessing insurance applications, editing a fillable pdf file is one of the features our 5000 users do every day in their work.
In order to simplify our business procedures, we would like them to use FF pdf viewer instead of launching Acrobat PRO to edit/print/save pdf files.
As reported, we are experiencing the same issues with checkbox and radio buttons in pdf files, especially in the print preview and even with the download version after filling the form.
What we get in the print preview is not what you see on screen.
The incorrect cases show multiple radio buttons from a group are checked rather than only one. For the checkboxes, all of them are checked even if just only one was clicked...
We will get the same results when editing the form once we've saved it to local disk after filling the document.
We reproduce the issue in FF-102.15.1.esr and FF-115.3.1.esr
Making the same tests with Chrome 117.0.5938.150, every thing works as expected ; i.e only one radio button is selected and only clicked checkboxes buttons are marked. 
Please let us know about the situation of this issue, if wontfix or otherwise which delay you're about to fix this issue.
Looking forward to hearing from you.

Comment 15

[Calixte Denizet (:calixte)]

:Squad_Swap, do your pdfs contain some XFA forms ?
If not, could you make a try in Firefox nightly and if you can reproduce your issue, please file a new bug in attaching a pdf ?

Comment 16

[Squad_Swap]

:calixte
Hi,
I've tried with Firefox nightly.
Malfunctions still occur ; i.e even if the form is not modified but just opened, the print view shows some boxes being checked.
I will create un new bug with attached sample file and screen copies.