2020142 - Firefox doesn’t support macOS text replacement shortcuts in email and URL fields

Status: NEW

(Core :: Widget: Cocoa, defect, P3)

Description

[Steve Marshall]

Safari and Chrome support expansion of macOS's user-defined text replacement shortcuts (like omw -> On my way!) in all input field types except password.

As of bug 1149826, Firefox supports these on fields other than email and URL as a byproduct of implementing autocorrect support, but macOS users typically consider text replacement shortcuts distinct from autocorrect behaviours, so not supporting text replacement on all field types results in a broken-feeling experience.

Steps to reproduce:

1. Create a text replacement shortcut (In Settings>General>Keyboards>Text Replacement) for @@ to [e-mail]
2. Visit data:text/html,<input type=url><input type=email><input type=password><input type=text><textarea>
3. Type @@ into each field and observe that neither the URL or email fields suggest the expansion snippet, but text and textarea do (and confirm that password does not, as expected and in line with other browsers)