773431 - Wikipedia mobile sliding reference div unclickable

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[Michael Comella (:mcomella) [NI reported issues only; no longer employed by Mozilla]]

1) Open Firefox, preferably versions 14 - 15 (standard - aurora) due to Bug 773427.
2) Click the URL bar and navigate to http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real+
3) Scroll down until the first reference (displayed as "[1]", colored in blue as a clickable link) and tap it so that the div slides into place.
4) Click the link on the expanded div.

Expected: Firefox navigates to page the reference points to.
Actual: Nothing.

Note that the "X", the close button, is also unclickable.

If your reference div contains a link and you long press the link, you will be given the long press dialog that allows you to open the link in a new tab and such. Therefore, the problem seems to extend to short taps only.

Tested on Galaxy Nexus, Android 4.0.4.

Comment 1

[Michael Comella (:mcomella) [NI reported issues only; no longer employed by Mozilla]]

Added see also for Bug 773427 as they are both bugs with the Wikipedia mobile reference links.

Comment 2

[Michael Comella (:mcomella) [NI reported issues only; no longer employed by Mozilla]]

Added another "See Also" link to another Wikipedia mobile reference div bug.

Comment 3

[Michael Comella (:mcomella) [NI reported issues only; no longer employed by Mozilla]]

(In reply to Michael Comella (:mcomella) from comment #0)
> 2) Click the URL bar and navigate to http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real+

Note on the link above, the "+" is not added automatically by Bugzilla – you have to add it by hand.

Comment 4

[Kartikaya Gupta (email:[e-mail])]

Attachment: Listen for touchstart in capture mode

The page is stopping propagation of the touchstart event, so we end up never receiving it in browser.js. This ensures we get it first so we can do our handling even if the page stops it. This behaviour is consistent with Chrome - I have a simple test page at http://people.mozilla.org/~kgupta/bug/773431.html to repro/verify this.

Comment 5

[Kartikaya Gupta (email:[e-mail])]

This is a regression from bug 744518.

Comment 6

[Kartikaya Gupta (email:[e-mail])]

https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/mozilla-inbound/rev/3ff93386d03f

Comment 7

[Ed Morley [:emorley]]

https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/3ff93386d03f

Comment 8

[Aaron Train [:aaronmt]]

This broke Twitter (bug 777706).

Comment 10

[Kartikaya Gupta (email:[e-mail])]

Comment on attachment 645347 [details] [diff] [review]
Listen for touchstart in capture mode

[Approval Request Comment]
Bug caused by (feature/regressing bug #): bug 744518
User impact if declined: sometimes clicking on things doesn't work
Testing completed (on m-c, etc.): on m-c
Risk to taking this patch (and alternatives if risky): this patch exposed bug 777706 which has now been fixed and uplifted. there don't seem to be any other regressions and it has been baking on m-c for a while now. affects mobile only
String or UUID changes made by this patch: none

Comment 11

[Kartikaya Gupta (email:[e-mail])]

https://hg.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla-aurora/rev/ac893752ff86
https://hg.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla-beta/rev/36672a728de7

Comment 12

[Adrian Tamas (:AdrianT)]

I am able to open the link and to close the reference pop-up by tapping the "x" button on:

Firefox Mobile 16.0b5 / Firefox Mobile 15
Samsung Galaxy R (Android 2.3.4)

Marking as verified on Firefox Mobile 16 and 15