Open Bug 1981645 Opened 1 year ago Updated 1 year ago

Pressing Shift+Home in the URL bar should not clear the selection

Categories

(Firefox :: Address Bar, defect, P3)

Product:
Firefox
Component:
Address Bar
Version:
Firefox 129
Platform:
Desktop
All
Type:
defect

Tracking

()

Tracking Flags:
Tracking Status
firefox-esr115 --- unaffected
firefox-esr128 --- unaffected
firefox-esr140 --- affected
firefox141 --- wontfix
firefox142 --- wontfix
firefox143 --- wontfix
firefox144 --- fix-optional

People

(Reporter: hiroshi, Unassigned)

References

(Regression)

Details

(Keywords: regression, Whiteboard: [sng-scotchbonnet-followon])

When pressing Shift+Home twice at the end of the URL bar, the selection made on the first press is cleared by the second.

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:143.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/143.0

Steps to Reproduce:

  1. Focus the URL bar.
  2. If it’s empty, type any text.
  3. Press End to move the caret to the end.
  4. Press Shift+Home.
  5. Press Shift+Home again.

Actual Result:
The text in the URL bar is no longer selected.

Expected Result:
The entire contents of the URL bar remain selected.

Regression Window:
https://hg-edge.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/pushloghtml?fromchange=3448fa7d36a96fffc3aab8d9faf3ac844c2671ee&tochange=97bce31758a53936d3a729ae713d0aead3a53137
Suspected change: https://hg-edge.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/e1ea954c14326b950d4f344e3fe367dfe4aa67dd

Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
status-firefox141: --- → affected
status-firefox142: --- → affected
status-firefox143: --- → affected
status-firefox-esr115: --- → unaffected
status-firefox-esr128: --- → unaffected
status-firefox-esr140: --- → affected
Ever confirmed: true
Keywords: regression
OS: Unspecified → All
Regressed by: 1896128
Hardware: Unspecified → Desktop

:mak, since you are the author of the regressor, bug 1896128, could you take a look? Also, could you set the severity field?

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Flags: needinfo?(mak)

Thank you for the report!

Severity: -- → S3
Flags: needinfo?(mak)
Priority: -- → P2
Whiteboard: [sng-scotchbonnet-followon]

Set release status flags based on info from the regressing bug 1896128

status-firefox144: --- → affected

:mak, it's likely too late for Fx143, but wondering if we should keep an eye on this for Fx144? Or, will it be in a much later release?

status-firefox143: affected → wontfix
Flags: needinfo?(mak)

I suspect it may come later, while it will be great to fix it, it's not a particularly common interaction.

Flags: needinfo?(mak)
Priority: P2 → P3
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