854793 - Hardware-Keyboard tab does not jump to the next field, with Swiftkey as the soft-keyboard

Status: RESOLVED INACTIVE

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: Keyboards and IME, defect)

Description

[alex]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:19.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/19.0
Build ID: 20130307122351

Steps to reproduce:

- use SwiftKey as soft-keyboard on android
- use USB-OTG to use a hardware keyboard
- visit some webseite with a form, try to use tab to jump from field to field


Actual results:

tab-character is inserted, when using swiftkey as soft-keyboard


Expected results:

focus should change, just as it does work with the stock android keyboard

Comment 1

[Aaron Train [:aaronmt]]

Which version of Firefox, device and version of SwiftKey are you using? Have you tried Nightly (http://nightly.mozilla.org) for Android?

Comment 2

[alex]

Firefox: Nightly from 24.03.2013
Swiftkey: Dunno, but was recent on 24.03.2013

not sure, if firefox or swiftkey-bug.

Comment 3

[Chris Peterson [:cpeterson]]

hi Alexander, this is an intriguing bug! :)

Which Android device and OS version are you using? Can you reproduce the bug using Android's stock browser?

Comment 4

[(inactive) Jim Chen [:jchen] [:darchons]]

Tab key worked fine for me using

* Galaxy Nexus 4.2.1
* SwiftKey 3.0.4.343
* Nightly 2013-04-25
* Apple Wireless Keyboard

Comment 5

[alex]

Bug happens with Swiftkey / Swiftkey-Tablet and a generic USB-Keyboard.

Bug does not happen with the default android Keyboard-App, and it does not happen in the Chrome App with Swiftkey (Tablet).

So it seems the Keyboard App is handling it a bit different, but chrome can cope with it, while firefox (20) can't.

Comment 6

[Teodora Vermesan (:TeoVermesan)]

Hi Alexander! Do you still see the issue? Can you reproduce on latest Nightly for Android http://nightly.mozilla.org/ ?

Comment 7

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

Seems to be keyboard-dependent (soft keyboard I mean).  I started seeing this recently with the Samsung keyboard on my Samsung Galaxy S4, but the Google keyboard continues to work fine.  Annoyingly, the phone automatically switches to the Samsung keyboard when you plug in an external USB keyboard (or barcode scanner in my case) and I have to immediately switch it back for the tab key it sends after each scan to work on web forms.

Comment 8

[Mira Lobontiu (Android QA)]

Hi,

Can you still reproduce the issue?

Thanks,

Comment 9

[Firefox Bug Husbandry Bot]

Closing per https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1473195

Contact :susheel if you think this bug should be re-opened

Comment 10

[alex]

Clearing needinfo.

The bug is 6 years old, I have a new phone and another soft keyboard and firefox probably changed a lot in between as well.