604390 - Text in search box is automatically selected while writing "search keyword"

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: Search, defect)

Description

[aditya.kaole]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.10) Gecko/20100915 Ubuntu/10.04 (lucid) Firefox/3.6.10
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.10) Gecko/20100915 Ubuntu/10.04 (lucid) Firefox/3.6.10

While writing "search keyword" in the Search box on the Firefox version 3.6.1, the text written is automatically gets selected.

Hence, as the user tries to write further, the older text written gets lost. 

Reproducible: Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Start the Mozilla Firefox
2.Try writing into the google search box some keywords.

Actual Results:  
The text gets selected writing automatically. hence, if continued writing the older text is lost.

Expected Results:  
The text should not be selected automatically

Comment 1

[Teej]

I can confirm this behaviour in Ubuntu 10.10 with Firefox version 3.6.10+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu3.

This bug has been filed on Launchpad at https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+bug/641300 and is being tracked there. Any information regarding this bug can be asked for or found there if needed at all.

Thank you :)

Comment 2

[Teej]

Note: I have this problem without ANY extensions other than the default Ubuntu installed ones.
I have noticed something about this bug. When this happens the usual Google search terms that normally appear do not, and it is only when changing tabs or closing firefox and restarting it that it fixes itself, but when it does, the search terms appear again, so this may have something to do with that?

Comment 3

[tim]

This bug affects all operating systems.  I have seen it on numerous versions of Ubuntu (9.04, 9.10, 10.04) as well as Windows Vista/7.  Other users have also reported seeing it on Mac OS X on launchpad in this bug (of which 641300 mentioned above is a duplicate):

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+bug/583122

I have not discovered a specific way to reproduce it - it occurs very intermittently but when it does happen it is extremely annoying.  27 other people have also reported suffering from this defect (not including additional people who may have reported duplicate issues) on Launchpad.

Comment 4

[jolindbe]

This always happens after sleep/hibernate, and it also makes firefox temporarily forget its address history. It usually starts to work normally after a few minutes.

I have this issue both in Ubuntu 10.04 and 10.10, with Firefox 3.6.13

Comment 6

[Andy Lutomirski]

I see this bug on Fedora 14 with latest (3.6) packages.  It's not (just) caused by sleep/hibernate -- I just saw it on a machine that never sleeps.

Whenever this bug is happening, it reliably causes:
 - Characters I type into the 'Lookup forecast by "City, St"' box at weather.gov
 - Whenever I type one or two characters into the subject field when composing a message in gmail, they get highlighted.  To continue typing without losing those characters, I have to hit the right arrow or otherwise deselect them.
 - The awesomebar isn't awesome.  That is, it just acts like a plain text box and doesn't pop up any hints.

The most recent time it triggered, I fixed it by defocusing Firefox and then refocusing it.

Restarting Firefox always fixes it for awhile.  I have no idea how to trigger it in the first place, though.

Comment 7

[Mark Banner (:standard8)]

According to the linked launchpad reports, the bug seemed to go away a few years ago (2011). As I don't know of any more reports like this, I'll close as WFM.