713638 - Text box shown incorrectly on http://www.google.com.au/firefox/

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: Untriaged, defect)

Description

[Russell]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:9.0.1) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/9.0.1
Build ID: 20111220165912

Steps to reproduce:

When I (inadvertently) put a slash after the address http://www.google.com.au/firefox (that is: http://www.google.com.au/firefox/) - I had the address with the slash as my home address, so it kept happening.


Actual results:

the edit box for google search is corrupt (no text appears, although the search happens correctly). Using 9.0.1 on XP, fully updated, but it happened prior to that version of firefox.


Expected results:

Text should appear when typed.

Note this looks like the bugs in #237401 and #279522 - marked as resolved, but not really. Try adding the slash as above to reproduce it.

Comment 1

[Mardeg]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:9.0.1) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/9.0.1
Works fine here. Try it in Firefox's own safe mode:
http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Safe%20Mode#w_how-to-start-firefox-in-safe-mode

Comment 2

[Russell]

Attachment: Window when no slash used (standard)

Comment 3

[Russell]

Attachment: Window when slash used (standard)

Comment 4

[Russell]

Definitely fault occurs in XP (not W7) when using Firefox safe mode. There must be a difference in what is sent to firefox in the two cases, and one of the syntaxes is not parsed correctly. I don't seem to have view source in firefox any more.

Comment 5

[Russell]

Attachment: With slash on XP (faulty, have typed "WithSlash")

Comment 6

[Russell]

I found view source, and there are many differences, but it is too complex for me to sort out. Definitely the source at "http://www.google.com.au/firefox/" causes a problem in firefox on XP.

Comment 7

[Vikram Kamath]

Russell: Somehow this seems to work for me. Can you do a diff on the 2 page sources and put the diff up here please? Maybe it'll help detect the problem, maybe it won't. I'm just curious :)

Comment 8

[Sudheesh Singanamalla (:ShellHacker)]

9 is not supported any longer. Upgrade to a newer version. Also the webpage works fine.
http://www.google.com.au/firefox/