266699 - Search toolbar doesn't show beginning of text typed

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: Toolbars and Customization, defect)

Description

[Adam Kessel]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8a5) Gecko/20041027 Firefox/0.9.1+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8a5) Gecko/20041027 Firefox/0.9.1+

Using very recent Firefox builds: when I first open Firefox, everything is fine.
 After a little while, though, if I go to the Google Search box (either with the
mouse or ctrl-k), the cursor is not visible--it is off to the left edge of the
box.  At least in the current state, I have to type 15 characters before a
single character is visible in the box.

Remembered history is visible before the typing enters the visible part of the
box, however.

It seems to me that the problem arises when I do a Google Search string that is
longer than the width of the box--it's as if the box is getting shifted over to
the right and never resets itself.

I can reset it by typing all the way over past the right edge of the box, and
then hitting 'home'.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1

[Adam Kessel]

I've noticed now that this occurs with form fields as well when the form field
history includes text wider than the displayed width of the field.

Comment 2

[William Bumgarner [:zsinj]]

Please use a recent version of Firefox, available at http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/, and report back with your results in relation to this bug report. (bug cleaning)

Comment 3

[Adam Kessel]

I haven't noticed this bug in several years. I think it can be closed.

Comment 4

[William Bumgarner [:zsinj]]

WFM per comment #3. Thanks for the reply!