426560 - password fields do not accept special chars (i.e. alt + <char>) anymore.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 424524

(Core :: Widget: Cocoa, defect)

Description

[Berteun Damman]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X 10.4; en-US; rv:1.9b5) Gecko/2008032619 Firefox/3.0b5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X 10.4; en-US; rv:1.9b5) Gecko/2008032619 Firefox/3.0b5

‘Special characters’ are typed with alt+<somekey> in OS X, for example for my keymap I have: alt+@ = €, and alt+s = ß; however for password input fields this does not input any character anymore in Firefox 3 beta 5. It worked in 4. This is even the case if the character formed by alt+<key> is a simple ascii lowercase character for example. It just does not get input. It's not a display problem, because when doing it to login it fails to log you in.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. find a password input field
2. type alt+something that gives a special char
3. notice no extra bullet appears
Actual Results:  
Nothing.

Expected Results:  
It should have shown a bullet so I would know a char got input.

Using the Keyboard Viewer to input the character (OS X) doesn't work either. It’s very inconvenient if your password has these special characters. You have to copy paste them into the password field.

Comment 1

[Jesse Ruderman]

This regressed between 2008-03-12 and 2008-03-13 nightlies, due to the patch in bug 420699.

I tested on Intel Mac OS X 10.4, using Alt+f and
data:text/html,<input type="text"><input type="password">

The issue with Keyboard Viewer might be separate.

Comment 2

[Josh Aas]

Dupe of bug 424524?

Comment 3

[Jesse Ruderman]

Thanks, Josh.