541695 - search box problem - will not properly overwrite selected text

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: Search, defect)

Description

[Pierre Marivaux]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X 10.4; en-US; rv:1.9.2) Gecko/20100115 Ant.com Toolbar 2.0 Firefox/3.6
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X 10.4; en-US; rv:1.9.2) Gecko/20100115 Ant.com Toolbar 2.0 Firefox/3.6

When I try to overwrite the text from a previous search (in the search box on the navigation toolbar) by selecting the previous text, the old text remains in the background while I type the new text.  This seems to happen more often when the previous text is longer than the visible length of the search box.  This did not happen in Firefox 3.5 for OSX.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Do a search with a search terms that extend beyond the length of the search box.
2. Switch to another tab
3. Return to the original tab
4. Highlight the Search terms using "select all"
5. Type new search terms

Comment 1

[Tyler Downer [He/Him]]

Try safe mode. Sounds like the ant toolbar could be causing this. http://support.mozilla.com/kb/Safe+Mode

Comment 2

[Shawn Wilsher :sdwilsh]

I was seeing this on 10.4 frequently as well.  Maybe an invalidation bug in layout?

Comment 3

[Robert O'Callahan (:roc) (email my personal email if necessary)]

Shawn, you mean it's 10.4 only?

Comment 4

[Shawn Wilsher :sdwilsh]

I never saw it on my 10.5 box.  I probably should have filed a bug, but my 10.4 box had been acting weird in general, so I didn't think too much about it :/

Comment 5

[Pierre Marivaux]

Thanks for the suggestion, Tyler, but I'm afraid that the behaviour is the same in safe mode, and I don't use the ant extension.  As to whether it happens on OS versions other than 10.4, I couldn't say.

Comment 6

[Pierre Marivaux]

As a revision to my previous comment:  Sorry, I was using the Ant extension when reporting the bug (just noticed my reporting data above).  However, I have since removed the Ant Toolbar and the search box behavior is the same.

Comment 7

[Stefan Weiss [:sir_none]]

i have tested this with different profiles in actual Production FF27 and on Beta (Windows XP, 7)

could not find any problem like the described...

can someone check - so we can close this?

Comment 8

[Matthew N. [:MattN]]

Thanks for checking. I also cannot reproduce.