611592 - Backspace button on the keyboard acts like the browser's back button.

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[Teodosia Pop]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:2.0b8pre) Gecko/20101031 Firefox/4.0b8pre
Build Identifier: Mozilla /5.0 (Android;Linux armv7l;rv:2.0b8pre) Gecko/20101111 Firefox/4.0b8pre Fennec /4.0b3pre

Pressing backspace button to delete text form a textfield the previously visited page is loaded instead of deleting the text. The issue is reproducible on both the software keyboard and hardware keyboard.

Devices: Motorola DROID 2, HTC Desire, Samsung Galaxy S Captivated.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Visit at least a site.
2.In the same tab go to www.google.com
3.Tap on the text field and start typing a word.
4.Press the backspace button from the keyboard.
Actual Results:  
The previously visited page is loaded.

Expected Results:  
The last typed letter should be deleted.

Comment 1

[Teodosia Pop]

Also reproducible on build Mozilla /5.0 (Android;Linux armv7l;rv:2.0b8pre)
Gecko/20101112 Firefox/4.0b8pre Fennec /4.0b3pre

Comment 2

[Mark Finkle (:mfinkle) (use needinfo?)]

Regression from bug 611240.

Comment 3

[Mark Finkle (:mfinkle) (use needinfo?)]

Attachment: patch

This patch changes the target of a CSS rule. The previous selector was blocking all keys from remote textboxes on desktop linux, bonly the backsapce key on Android. Might be a hard vs soft keyboard issue.

Anyway, this patch lets both desktop and Android function correctly. It alos does not dismiss the vkb on Android when panning content, which was the reason for adding the CSS in bug 605253.

Comment 5

[Mark Finkle (:mfinkle) (use needinfo?)]

This bug is worse for hard keyboards. No text can be entered into a textbox.
Virtual keyboards are less affected.

Comment 6

[Vivien Nicolas (:vingtetun) (:21) - (NOT reading bugmails, needinfo? please)]

Comment on attachment 490079 [details] [diff] [review]
patch

Works for me

Comment 7

[Mark Finkle (:mfinkle) (use needinfo?)]

pushed:
http://hg.mozilla.org/mobile-browser/rev/2811d31cc4e0

Comment 8

[Aakash Desai [:aakashd]]

verified FIXED on builds:
Mozilla/5.0 (Maemo; Linux armv71; rv:2.0b8pre) Gecko/20101115 Namoroka/4.0b8pre Fennec/4.0b3pre

and

Mozilla/5.0 (Android; Linux armv71; rv:2.0b8pre) Gecko/20101115 Namoroka/4.0b8pre Fennec/4.0b3pre