816894 - Autocomplete/suggestions overrides arrow keys in location bar

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: Address Bar, defect, P3)

Description

[u457425]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/17.0 Firefox/17.0
Build ID: 20121120062532

Steps to reproduce:

I inserted an url into the location bar.
example: http://drupal.org/project/views
(I don't know if the url has to have already been visited before. In my case it has been)

I wanted to modify part of the url so I navigated to the beginning of the url (Home) and advanced to a certain position with the arrow keys.
example: 'http' => 'https'
therefore: [Home] [->] [->] [->] [->] [s]

The url suggestions appeared after a short delay, but I wanted to modify the url some more so I tried navigating to the next position.
[->]......

The suggestion list - and the bug - sometimes appears as soon as after hitting [Home].
I suppose it depends on some timeout and the speed of interaction.


Actual results:

Upon pressing the right arrow, the cursor jumps to the end of the line instead of the next character location.

This would be the right thing if I selected an element from the suggestion list - replace with the selected and jump to the end - but I did not select anything.


Expected results:

The cursor should move to the next character position.

Comment 1

[u457425]

This bug could be related:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=436616

Comment 2

[Manuela Muntean [Away]]

I can reproduce this issue with the latest Nightly.

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:20.0) Gecko/20121203 Firefox/20.0
Build ID: 20121203030801

Comment 3

[Virgil Dicu [:virgil] [QA]]

Can't seem to find a duplicate for this, though I remember seeing something similar.

This works in F10, and doesn't in F16 - probably a regression from autcomplete?

Comment 4

[Ada [:adalucinet]]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:19.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/19.0
Build ID: 20130123083802

I can reproduce this issue with Firefox 19.0b3, latest Nightly and latest Aurora on Windows 7. Regression range:

Last good nightly: 2012-03-13
First bad nightly: 2012-03-14

Pushlog: http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/pushloghtml?fromchange=1ca7a94573f2&tochange=c71845b3b2a6

I confirm the same behavior on Mac OS X 10.8 on the Firefox 19.0b3, latest Nightly and latest Aurora builds.

Comment 5

[Ada [:adalucinet]]

Marco, could you please take a look at this issue? I think it may be related with your push from https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/mozilla-inbound/rev/1ffea9163a9d

Comment 6

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

That push enabled autofill, it's possible this was an already existing problem in autofill. It's strange though since there is no autofill result following these steps.

I could reproduce it by isiting the page, editing to https and when the popup opens the cursor moves to the end of the bar.
I may look at it, though I have no ETA atm, so if anyone wants to steal this, feel free to.

Comment 7

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

I cannot reproduce this in Nightly

Comment 8

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

Bugbug thinks this bug is a regression, but please revert this change in case of error.