268359 - unable type text into text box if page is loaded from bookmark management and find type ahead enable

Status: NEW

(Toolkit :: Find Toolbar, defect, P5)

Description

[Enrique Ochagavia]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; es-ES; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041027 Firefox/1.0RC1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; es-ES; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041027 Firefox/1.0RC1

With "Find type ahead" enabled, unable type text in textbox in a page loaded
from Bookmark Management

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Enable "Find type ahead"
2. Add http://www.mozilla.org to bookmarks
3. Open Bookmarks->Manage bookmarks and doubleclick into bookmark created.
4. Type text into search textbox at top and rigth of page

Actual Results:  
Only first character appears in textbox, and find bar appears at bottom

Expected Results:  
All text typed into textbox

Comment 1

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

At last, one of these "FAYT comes up while typing in a textarea or text input"
bugs that's reproducible: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US;
rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041106 Firefox/1.0, happens every time.

Not sure if it really belongs in Bookmarks or Find, but --> NEW

Comment 2

[Jonathan Nicol]

I've encountered similar behavior, but the cause is not the same. On the page
http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/query.cgi, when typing into the "Words:"
field, the first letter appears in both the text box and the find bar, then
subsequent letters only in find. Here is the relevant source from the page
(maybe the JavaScript has something to do with it??)

<tr>
    <td align="right" valign="baseline">
      <b><label for="content">Words:</label></b>
    </td>
    <td>

      <input name="content" size="40" id="content"
             value="">
      <script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript"> <!--
          document.forms['queryform'].content.focus(); 
      // -->
      </script>
    </td>
  </tr>

Comment 3

[Stephen Boulet]

I ran into this problem on Firefox 1.0.1 on windows xp. I went to an entry box
to type in some information, and the type ahead kicked in when I started typing
in information. Really annoying since the entry box loses focus, making the user
have to type in one character at a time.

BUT, I found that when I typed in some text in an external application, copied
it, and then pasted it in the entry box, find ahead would start working
correctly again.

Comment 4

[Guy Soffer]

I ran across this bug too, but in a different way:
OS details: Windows NT 4.0, firefox: 1.0.1

Starting with a clean slate (no apps running):

1. double click on an internet shortcut
2. minimize the window that popped up
3. double click on the same internet shortcut

Now, click inside a testbox (or password box), and start typing.
The first letter will show up in both the textbox and the find field, the rest
of the text will only be shown in the find field.

I'll have to disable this feature until the bug is fixed :( 
I use internet shortcuts a lot, because my app creates some..

Comment 5

[Mark Lodato]

Can confirm:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511
Firefox/1.0.4
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050623
Firefox/1.0+

Comment 6

[Tobias Sager]

Maybe related to bug 258285?

Comment 7

[ken lewis]

Has anyone tracked this bug to Deer Park Alpha 2?  I believe it's present in the
build I'm using: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.8b4)
Gecko/20050719 Firefox/1.0+

I'm not sure what the exact process is to replicate it in DPa2, but clicking on
a bookmark in the bookmark tab or opening a link in a new tab can 'catch' the
cursor in the bookmark tab and force the Find As You Type bar to open every time
instead of letting the text typed go into a text box.  (A bizarre extension of
this behaviour is the trapped FAYT bar refusing to close after closing the tab
for which it unintentionally opened.)

Comment 8

[Srihari Kulkarni]

With FAYT enabled, the user is not able to enter text into any of input fields
on a Web page. Any effort to enter data into an input field results in Firefox
trying to search for the string and the input field losing focus. 

Comment 9

[Kevin Wilson]

I'm experiencing this problem running 1.5.1 on Linux.  I first found it when beta 1 was released.  The problem was still around in beta 2, 1.5.0, and now in 1.5.1.  I've tried compiling firefox and using the official binaries, but nothing seems to get rid of the issue except disabling the urlbar and autocomplete in forms.

Comment 10

[Kevin Wilson]

I am sorry; my problem is actually somewhat different.  I somehow missed the fact that FAYT is unconnected to the urlbar autocomplete box.  It doesn't involve the FAYT search box at all.

Comment 11

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

*** Bug 285294 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 12

[Majken Connor [:Kensie]]

I think this is fixed, either that or I suck at reproducing it.

Comment 13

[Malte Starostik]

I've been experiencing this behaviour sporadically at least since 1.5, maybe it was there in 1.0.x, too.  It still happens with 1.5.0.7 (German, WinXP).  On another box, same version, it happens very often.  But there I can't link it to specific web pages or ways to navigate to the pages either.
Sometimes it helps to switch focus to another app, but most of the time, restarting Firefox is the only remedy :-(
It happens no matter if there are many tabs and/or many windows opened or just a single window with a single tab.
Deactivating type ahead find works around it, but that's not really what I want.
In some cases it's like described many times before, i.e. the first char goes into the form field and find, subsequent chars only to find.  In other cases, even the first char is only directed to the find bar.  The strange thing is that usually the caret keeps flashing in the input field giving no indication of really lost focus.

Cheers,
Malte

Comment 14

[Majken Connor [:Kensie]]

malte - this bug is very specifically about this behaviour occurring after pages are loaded from the bookmarks manager.  There are other bugs about the find bar popping up seemingly randomly.  Please confirm if you are seeing this *specific* behaviour, with these steps to reproduce.

Comment 15

[Guy Soffer]

I have no been able to reproduce this right now, using the steps I tried before. However, this happened to me 2 days ago, so it still is happening under some other situation., I'm using version 1.5.0.7

Comment 16

[Malte Starostik]

sorry, browsing those reports i must have been confused which tab i was typing into.  i don't remember having seen the problem related to bookmark management nor can i reproduce it now.

malte

Comment 17

[Marilyn Johnson]

I have been plagued by this problem, or at least something very similar.  Attempts to type in a text box were often foiled--what I typed got re-routed into the pop-up "find on this page" tool. Very annoying!  I even had to fire up IE to search this site for my problem.  Anyway, I read enough to jog my memory: my problem began after I changed the accessibity option to "begin finding when you begin typing."  I may be jumping the gun, but unchecking that option appears to have solved my problem.     

Comment 18

[Stephen Boulet]

Problem still present for me under 2.0.0.3 under windows XP.

Stephen