375953 - Previous autocomplete entries are set to erase typed text merely by moving your mouse over it

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 79069

(Firefox :: Tabbed Browser, defect)

Description

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User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.3) Gecko/20070309 Firefox/2.0.0.3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.3) Gecko/20070309 Firefox/2.0.0.3

Type something you commonly type in a search engine like google but type something different which you've never typed before. Autocomplete will bring up a list of previous entries. Move your mouse down over the these entries (a typical movement people make I'm sure) and press enter. The typed text will revert back to the saved entry that was last highlight by the mouseover and will search using the old entry. Grrr.

Reproducible: Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Type something you commonly type in a search engine like google but type something different which you've never typed before. Autocomplete will bring up a list of previous entries.

2. Move your mouse down over the these entries (a typical movement people make I'm sure).

3. Press enter; the typed text will revert back to the saved entry that was last highlight by the mouseover and will search using the old entry. Grrr.
Actual Results:  
Wrong information is searched for.

Expected Results:  
For the information I wanted to be searched for to be searched for.

Why does this stupid bug remain? It should not show the previous entries once the data entered is different from all previous entries as a quick fix. IE does not have this stupid bug.

Comment 1

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This bug may be a duplicate of 357220 but I am unsure because whoever entered it didn't use the best wording or grammar, at least that's my opinion.