768737 - Text field (to enter email address) looks like it can't be edited (but it can) (15.0a2)

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 769405

(Core :: Layout: Form Controls, defect)

Description

[[e-mail]]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:15.0) Gecko/20120626 Firefox/15.0a2
Build ID: 20120626042007

Steps to reproduce:

visited this link: http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/aurora/ and tried to sign up for newsletter using Aurora 15.0a2 (2012-06-26). 


Actual results:

Cursor did not appear in box. Also couldn't select "Your email address" to highlight for copying to clipboard. If I started typing the "Your email address" disappeared and what I typed did appear (but no cursor). Was still able to submit my email address and sign up for newsletter but it was confusing as at first I thought I couldn't. This issue occurs in Aurora and Nightly(16) but not Stable(13) or Beta(14).


Expected results:

"Your email address" should have disappeared as soon as cursor placed in box. Should have been seen a cursor to indicate field was editable.

Comment 1

[u279076]

Confirmed this happens in latest-mozilla-central on Linux as well.

Comment 2

[u279076]

Simon, can you please investigate using progressively earlier versions of Aurora to find a regression window for this bug? We need to narrow down the exact day where this started to happen. Thanks.

Comment 3

[[e-mail]]

(In reply to Anthony Hughes, Mozilla QA (irc: ashughes) from comment #2)
> Simon, can you please investigate using progressively earlier versions of
> Aurora to find a regression window for this bug? We need to narrow down the
> exact day where this started to happen. Thanks.

I confirmed this happens in 15.0a1 but I am not sure where to get an earlier build of 15. Can you point me to URL to download earlier builds of 15? I have already confirmed this is not present in the latest 14 (Beta).

Regards, Simon.

Comment 4

[David Baron :dbaron: (⌚️UTC-4, no longer working on Mozilla)]

https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/2012/ (by year/month)

(Note that every six weeks code moves from mozilla-central to mozilla-aurora, mozilla-aurora to mozilla-beta, and mozilla-beta to mozilla-release, pretty much simultaneously.  So to track down builds of 15, you'd look at mozilla-aurora builds from now back to June 5 or so, and mozilla-central before that.  The version number is in the filenames.)

Comment 5

[[e-mail]]

I have found the regression: Portable zip downloaded from ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/nightly/2012/05/2012-05-25-03-05-17-mozilla-central/firefox-15.0a1.en-US.win32.zip doesn't have regression whereas ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/nightly/2012/05/2012-05-25-07-02-45-mozilla-central/firefox-15.0a1.en-US.win32.zip does have regression.

Can someone double check this?

Regards, Simon Grant.

Comment 6

[u279076]

Last Good:
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:15.0) Gecko/15.0 Firefox/15.0a1 ID:20120525030517
http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/1dd0c5c6d9fd

First Bad:
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:15.0) Gecko/15.0 Firefox/15.0a1 ID:20120525070245
http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/3871d6ca5fb2

Pushlog:
http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/pushloghtml?fromchange=1dd0c5c6d9fd&tochange=3871d6ca5fb2

Potential Bugs:
Bug 673873 - Display placeholder when focusing empty input

Comment 7

[u279076]

Thanks Simon for helping me track down the regression.

Comment 8

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Sounds like the behavior is exactly what it should be, given the markup on the site and the desired behavior in bug 673873.  The only issue I see here is the lack of a caret in the textfield, right?  Mounir?

Comment 9

[Mounir Lamouri (:mounir)]

(In reply to Boris Zbarsky (:bz) from comment #8)
> Sounds like the behavior is exactly what it should be, given the markup on
> the site and the desired behavior in bug 673873.  The only issue I see here
> is the lack of a caret in the textfield, right?  Mounir?

Actually, there is a caret. It's just black so we can't see it.