887724 - "Quick find" bar is triggered and prevents typing into some input fields (search, email, url, tel) when Find As You Type is enabled or when typing "/" or "'"

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Core :: General, defect)

Description

[Galious]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:22.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/22.0 (Beta/Release)
Build ID: 20130618035212

Steps to reproduce:

The HTML5 fields having this problem are:
<input type="search">
<input type="email">
<input type="url">
<input type="tel">

There are two ways to make the "Quick find" bar preventing typing in these fields (maybe this bug should be split into 2 differents bugs).

All these fields can be tested on http://www.miketaylr.com/code/input-type-attr.html

1st scenario:
- enable Find As You Type (accessibility.typeaheadfind=true)
- go to a page containing one of these fields (see example URL above)
- click into one of the fields
- start typing text (any character)

2nd scenario:
- disable Find As You Type (accessibility.typeaheadfind=false)
- go to a page containing one of these fields (see example URL above)
- click into one of the fields
- start typing a "/" (slash) or a "'" (single quote)


Actual results:

The "Quick find" bar pops up and the typed text is entered into the bar instead of the web page field.


Expected results:

The "Quick find" bar should not pop up when typing in these fields, so that the text would appear in the field and not in the bar.
In the example page (URL above), you can see that this good behavior has been implemented correctly for all other types of input fields (text, password...).

Comment 1

[Josh Matthews [:jdm]]

I can't reproduce this problem in Fedora/Gnome.

Comment 2

[Galious]

It was in fact due to the "Find in tabs" extension that I had not disabled prior to testing. I will contact the developper.