Closed Bug 210961 Opened 21 years ago Closed 21 years ago

Autocomplete URL appears incorrectly in address bar if capital letters are typed. (CAPS LOCK)

Categories

(Firefox :: Address Bar, defect)

x86
All
defect
Not set
normal

Tracking

()

VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 194574

People

(Reporter: spamluvr, Assigned: hewitt)

Details

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030516 Mozilla Firebird/0.6
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030516 Mozilla Firebird/0.6

If the caps lock key is engaged (or shift is held down to produce capital
letters), when the list of matching URLs appears and you use the arrow keys to
cycle through them, the entire URL (except for the "ht" in "http") is appended
to the text you typed.

Note that this happens if ANY capital letters are entered.

Upon pressing enter to go to the URL, it is loaded correctly, so this is an
aesthetic issue more than anything.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Type any of the following into the address bar: Cnn, cNn, cnN, CNN
2. Press the down arrow key to match http://www.cnn.com/


Actual Results:  
Text actually appearing in the address bar is now CNNtp://www.cnn.com/ (or
cNntp://www.cnn.com/ , etc.)

Really disconcerting, but then we shouldn't be surfing with caps lock on.



Expected Results:  
Convert the typed text to lowercase and behave as usual, or perhaps chastize the
user for surfing with caps lock on.
Confirmed on Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.5a)
Gecko/20030628 Mozilla Firebird/0.6

Not present on SeaMonkey trunk build Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0;
en-US; rv:1.5a) Gecko/20030626

Confirming as a bug against Firebird.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Ever confirmed: true
Confirming with 20030629 build on W2K.

OS -> ALL (this is not XP specific)
Severity -> Minor (this is only an aesthetic issue, not a real bug)
Severity: normal → minor
OS: Windows XP → All
Simon: this is a bug.
Severity: minor → normal
this may be a dup of bug 194574

As I mentioned in that bug, this can be more than just a cosmetic issue.

If you do NOT press enter to select the entry, but rather use the arrow keys or
mouse to navigate within the text field, the bad text stays in the field.
bad appending when case doesn't match, dupe of 194574 that i filed, thanks for
pointing it out djk

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 194574 ***
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 21 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
Taking QA and mass verification of dupe, invalid and wontfix autocomplete bugs.
Sorry for the bugspam.
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
QA Contact: asa → davidpjames
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