259792 - Form autofill is preventing from using a select form input

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Toolkit :: Form Manager, defect)

Description

[Jérôme Schell]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040914 Firefox/0.10
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040914 Firefox/0.10

When completing a text field in a form, if the autofill drop down menu is active
 (visible), you can't click on a select form field.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Enter some text in a text form field (the autofill drop down window appears)
2. Try to click on the arrow of a select field to develop its contents (without
trying to click anywhere else before)


Actual Results:  
Nothing happens (in fact the autofill menu is disappearing when you hold the
mouse button and reappearing when you release the mouse button)

Expected Results:  
The select form field should developp to be able to select an entry and the
autofill menu should disappear.

Comment 1

[Philippe]

I have a similar problem with Firefox 1.0 on Linux. Could be the same thing.
Here's what I see when Saved Form Information option is enabled.
- Say you have a form with two fields. One field is for entering a record
number. The other one is for entering a comment.
- Whenever a new record number is entered, it is remembered by Firefox. So when
you type a number in there, the suggestion list appears. 
- While the suggestion list is visible, click in the comment field. The
suggestion list will close (good). However the focus will remain in the record#
field. Type a char and see it added in the record# field (wrong). 
- Another click is required to move the focus into the comment field.

For this reason I leave form autocomplete off.

Comment 2

[Jason K Carter]

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107
Firefox/1.0

I'm also experiencing this bug.  More annoying than anything else.

Comment 3

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

Can you reproduce this issue in a more recent build? The bug as decribed in
comment 0 works for me in FF1.0 final on Windows. Is it a Linux/Mac-only bug?

Comment 4

[Tuukka Tolvanen (sp3000)]

confirmed linux gtk2 trunk 2005-02-18-23Z. bloody annoying, too. (The bugzilla
CC field and nearby select dropdowns make a decent testcase.)

Comment 5

[Carsten Otto]

Confirmed. Linux X86_64, Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.7.8)
Gecko/20050515 Firefox/1.0.4

Comment 6

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

*** Bug 270219 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 7

[Chris L]

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20060217 Firefox/1.6a1

Mac OS 10.3.9

Same here. Also happens with drop down menus.