689096 - Hitting the backspace key too quickly repeatedly deletes everything in textarea

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 792928

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[Blair McBride [:Unfocused] (UNAVAILABLE)]

I was hitting the backspace key a few times in succession to delete part of a sentence, when it suddenly selected all the text in the textarea and deleted it. Certainly not the intended action.

No idea if this could be something built-in to the software keyboard. Using Samsung Galaxy Tab 1.01, running latest software update, and latest nightly.

Comment 1

[John Hammink]

As with #689095, I can't reproduce this.   I took the following steps:

Went to google.  In search box typed some charachters, inserted cursor somewhere in the middle, typed more characters.

NOTE:  characters were inserted correctly.

Hit backspace.   

NOTE:  only single char directly left of cursor was deleted with a single stroke.

Repeated on other sites, including mail.ee (webmail portal), gmail.  Same result.

Comment 2

[Blair McBride [:Unfocused] (UNAVAILABLE)]

Updated to latest nightly, and I can still reproduce it :\

Note that to reproduce, I have to hit the backspace key at least a dozen times in quick succession. And it doesn't always occur - it seemed more common yesterday, but today it's more like once every 10-15 times. On one of those keystrokes, it looks like the text is being selected - presumably the next keystroke is what deletes the selected text. Testing more, it isn't always all the text that's deleted - sometimes it's all, sometimes it's just most of it (leaving a small block of 3-4 words at the start of the textarea alone).