606485 - Alternate keyboard (SwiftKey) does not work correctly w/ Fennec

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 581596

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[Ioana Chiorean]

Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Android; Linux armv7l; en-US; rv:2.0b8pre)
Gecko/20101022 Firefox/4.0b8pre Fennec/4.0b2pre 

Device Motorola Droid 2

SwiftKey available on the android market or here:
http://www.appbrain.com/app/com.touchtype.swiftkey.trial

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open Fennec w/ SwiftKey enabled
2. Tap awesome bar
3. Try to enter a URL, like touch.facebook.com.

Actual Results:  
Hitting the "." will type ". " (a dot and a space)

Expected Results:  
Should be able to use alternate keyboards w/ Fennec w/ correct keyboard
behavior.

Note: 2/10 time pressing . in the Swiftkey brought up a crash reporter for Swiftkey

Comment 1

[Naoki Hirata :nhirata (please use needinfo instead of cc)]

Hrm.  looks like Bug 598617 is back.

Comment 2

[Naoki Hirata :nhirata (please use needinfo instead of cc)]

I should state that instead of deleting it gives a ". "

Comment 3

[Michael Wu [:mwu]]

Swiftkey currently has no way of knowing that it shouldn't insert spaces.

Comment 4

[Ioana Chiorean]

Attachment: buttons missing

Steps to reproduce:
1. go to about:config
2. tap the search field : enter text 
3. delete the text or press x in the search bar
4. press ass new preference (ex: boolean)

Comment 5

[Ioana Chiorean]

sorry
wrong attachment