212487 - Form autocomplete is one character behind typed text

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Firefox :: Address Bar, defect)

Description

[Brian Ryner (not reading)]

If you start typing into a form field, autocomplete filtering will be one
character behind what you've typed.

For example, suppose you have the following autocomplete possibilities for a
form field:

camp
cell
center

Autocomplete will not appear when you just type 'c'.  If you enter 'ce', all 3
possibilities will be shown.  If you type 'cel', "cell" and "center" will be shown.

Comment 1

[Brian Ryner (not reading)]

Attachment: patch

Use the "input" event for notifying the AutoCompleteController to update the
autocomplete list.  Using keydown is pretty fragile since you're depending on
your event firing after editor's keydown listener.  I think input will also
correctly account for pasting into the input field.

Comment 2

[Joe Hewitt (gone)]

Comment on attachment 127605 [details] [diff] [review]
patch

r=hewitt

Comment 3

[Brian Ryner (not reading)]

checked in.

Comment 4

[Neil Parks]

Please see my comment #2 in bug #175597 and consider whether this patch might be
related.

Comment 5

[Neil Parks]

Amending comment #4:  The problem I'm encountering has been reported in bug #212686.

Comment 6

[Jesse Ruderman]

*** Bug 202758 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 7

[Simon Paquet [:sipaq]]

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