715480 - Awesome bar drops key-strokes when typing with an on-screen keyboard (Linux)

Status: RESOLVED INACTIVE

(Firefox :: Address Bar, defect)

Description

[marmuta]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Ubuntu; X11; Linux x86_64; rv:9.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/9.0
Build ID: 20111210141108

Steps to reproduce:

Running Firefox 8.0/9.0 on Ubuntu 11.10 or 12.04
1) Start on-screen keyboard, e.g. Onboard, Kvkdb, probably any will do
2) Click the url bar
3) Type "aaaa" with the on-screen Keyboard


Actual results:

The url-bar shows "aaa", one letter is missing in this example. 
Multiple key-strokes may go missing when typing any other sequence.
For example, typing www.slashdot.org gives www.lsdot.org or www.sashdot.org.


Expected results:

The url bar should show "aaaa", four letters.

Comment 1

[marmuta]

Original bug report for Onboard on launchpad:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/onboard/+bug/905636

Comment 2

[marmuta]

If anyone has ideas what can be done about this from Onboard's side, please let us know. I'm at a loss currently, though ready and willing to add workarounds.

Comment 3

[Philip wagner]

i have notice said issue in firefox 15 alpha i konw that its more the internet connection locking up or your cpu ocking up  firefox needs to use more python coding in all versions to improve their cpu usage that way it reduces load time and cpu usage and this bug will stop happening on any os

Comment 4

[juan becerra [:juanb]]

marmuta, are there any key-strokes dropped when typing in other text fields?

Comment 5

[marmuta]

Yes, it's not restricted to firefox. It seems to happen in all Gtk-3 text entries that, on typing, pop up helpful lists to choose from. This became gradually clearer only after I filed this bug report. Firefox is heavily used though, so it's particularly noticed there.

What I use to tell people is to disable the awesome popup while working with Onboard. We don't have a better workaround yet, unfortunately.

One thing I tried was, instead of sending fake key strokes, to insert text directly into the url bar via AT-SPI. However the url entry doesn't seem to support the editable interface, atspi_editable_text_insert_text() did nothing (works in e.g. gedit though).

Comment 6

[BMO Automation]

Per policy at https://wiki.mozilla.org/Bug_Triage/Projects/Bug_Handling/Bug_Husbandry#Inactive_Bugs. If this bug is not an enhancement request or a bug not present in a supported release of Firefox, then it may be reopened.