671273 - Alt & Alt lock keys don't work correctly for maps.google.com text fields

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[Cristian Nicolae (:xti)]

Attachment: screenshot

Build id : Mozilla/5.0 (Android;Linux armv7l;rv:8.0a1)Gecko/20110713
Firefox/8.0a1 Fennec/8.0a1
Device: Motorola Droid 2
OS: Android 2.2

Steps to reproduce:
1. Open Fennec App
2. Browse to classic version of maps.google.com
3. After the Google Maps page is fully loaded, tap on Get direction link
4. While Alt button is tapped, hit any key with a number on it
5. Tap on Alt lock key and type "1981"

Expected result:
After step 3, "A" text field is focused and highlighted. After step 4, a number is displayed in the text field. After step 5, the numbers are added right after the one typed at step 4.

Actual result:
Alt & Alt lock keys doesn't work at all.

Notes:
Please see the following video: http://www.youtube.com/user/qaioana#p/a/u/0/-s2j-bCttSQ
The screenshot contains the actual result after step 5 (the expected result it was "21981").

Comment 1

[Aaron Train [:aaronmt]]

Naoki, do you see this on any other device with a hard keyboard?

Comment 2

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

I only have the droid 2 that comes with a hard keyboard.

Comment 3

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

Before the map loads, the alt keys work.  After the map loads, the alt key does nothing.

Comment 4

[Kevin Brosnan [Ex-Mozilla]]

I can confirm this on maps.google.com for desktop. The other desktop sites for Google (Images, News, etc.) work as expected.

Comment 5

[Cristian Nicolae (:xti)]

This issue occurs on:
Build id : Mozilla/5.0 (Android;Linux armv7l;rv:6.0)Gecko/20110721
Firefox/6.0 Fennec/6.0
Device: HTC Desire Z
OS: Android 2.2.1

Comment 7

[Anna (Waverley)]

I have found the regression range for this bug:

It doesn't occur on: 
Build ID : Mozilla /5.0 (Android;Linux armv7l;rv:6.0a1) Gecko/20110429 Firefox/6.0a1 Fennec/6.0a1 
http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/ff152a406ed3

it started happening on:
Build ID : Mozilla /5.0 (Android;Linux armv7l;rv:6.0a1) Gecko/20110430 Firefox/6.0a1 Fennec/6.0a1 
http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/7162a399c334

Possible range:
http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/pushloghtml?fromchange=ff152a406ed3&tochange=7162a399c334

Comment 8

[Alex Pakhotin (:alexp)]

Looks like the fix for bug 699792 fixed this as well.
Works for me on the Droid Pro and Droid 3 with the latest native UI Nightly (the birch branch).