457843 - Hovering mouse pointer across autocomplete options yields unexpected textbox result

Status: RESOLVED INACTIVE

(Toolkit :: Autocomplete, defect)

Description

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User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.0.3) Gecko/2008092510 Ubuntu/8.04 (hardy) Firefox/3.0.3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.0.3) Gecko/2008092510 Ubuntu/8.04 (hardy) Firefox/3.0.3

If you want to edit a text box's content by selecting a word, and then inadvertently move the mouse pointer out of sight by hovering it over the autocomplete box, your editing will be eventually lost when you move the focus of of the edited text-box.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
I am at a google SERP.
In the search box, I type "kate delete blank lines", then press the Search button.
Since I don't like the results, I wish to change my search to "kate remove blank lines", and I do it as follows:
1) I place my mouse's pointer over the word "delete" displaying at the search box.
2) I double-click my mouse's left button in order to select the word.
3) Automagically, the word is selected, but also the auto-complete box unfolds, displaying the option "kate delete blank lines" which has been previously cached by the browser.
4) Here comes the trick: I now want to replace the word "delete" with "remove"; before starting to type, I get the mouse's pointer out of my sight. I sometimes happen to do this by moving the pointer downwards, so when this happens, the pointer hovers over the autocomplete box, thus inadvertently selecting the option "kate delete blank lines".
5) I type the word "remove", so now the search box reads "kate remove blank lines". Everything looks fine, and I can now run my new search.
6) Now, the bug: as I press the "tab" key to get the focus on the "Search" button and do my new search, what actually happens is that the text in the box is replaced with the inadvertently selected autocomplete option "kate delete blank lines", so I am actually going to repeat the same search(!!)
Actual Results:  
Editing of the text box is lost.

Expected Results:  
Not loosing the edited text in the box.

I am using Firefox on KDE 3.5.

Comment 3

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