222119 - typing in the location box or in the authentication dialog results in text out of the typed order

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Core :: DOM: Editor, defect)

Description

[Demia Lessa]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5a) Gecko/20030728 Mozilla Firebird/0.6.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5a) Gecko/20030728 Mozilla Firebird/0.6.1

When typing an URL on the location box or the logon/password on the
authentication dialog results in text out of the typed order. When you start
typing any text in these boxes, very frequently the caret gets misplaced
sometime during the regular typing. For instance, when I type my e-mail address:
[e-mail] the caret should move forward as I type each
character. Sometimes, though, the caret gets misplaced during the regular
typing. Let's say I type "demian@know"; the caret should be positioned after the
"w" but it scrolls back to the position before the "w" and when I finish typing
I see "[e-mail]". This is not a typing problem. I could
reproduce this issue several times- it does not depend on the typing speed. I'm
quite certain that it is somehow related to the autocompletion feature, but I
really can't tell because I haven't looked over the code.

Reproducible: Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
1. be sure autocompletion is on
2. find a web site that requires autentication
3. type your logon/password in your regular typing speed 
   (not snail speed)
4. after typing sometimes you will see that the caret is 
   not positioned after the last typed character- it scrolled 
   back sometime during your typing

Actual Results:  
The text was not entered as expected. Obviously, after having trouble with
authentication more often than I used to I started looking at what I was doing
wrong and it wasn't me!!!

Expected Results:  
It should have typed the text exaclty in the order that the keys were pressed.
The caret should have always kept its position AFTER the last typed character
and not scrolled back during typing.

Comment 1

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 2

[lankfordandrew]

Why can't you people fix such a stupid, frequent bug like this one?  How do
expect firefox not to be a security nightmare if you go through several releases
with these sorts of bugs?

Comment 3

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

still see this?

Comment 4

[Ed Morley [:emorley]]

Closing since now after whiteboard closeme date and no reply to last comment.

Please reopen/comment with further info, if you still see this issue with Firefox 3.6.13 or later in safe mode:
http://support.mozilla.com/kb/Safe+Mode

If you wish, you can also try to reproduce in Firefox 4 Beta 8 or later:
http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all-beta.html