937015 - Form history autofill popup for text fields not always appearing

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox for Metro Graveyard :: Input, defect)

Description

[Kamil Jozwiak [:kjozwiak]]

Attachment: context menu not always appearing when tapping on text boxes

When selecting text fields that previously had information inserted into them, a context menu should appear listing all the previous entries. If a user is currently in a text field, selecting a secondary text field will not display the context menu even if there was information inserted previously. If the user taps on the text field the second time around, the context menu will appear.

- Attached a short video to illustrate the issue (notice that I have to tap on the text field twice to receive the context menu that lists the previous entries)

Steps to reproduce the issue:

1) Open Firefox Metro
2) Go to http://autofillforms.mozdev.org/test.html
3) Fill out the "username", "Email", "City" & "State" text fields and select "Submit"
4) Tap on the "username" text field and a context menu will appear
5) Tap on the "city" text field and you'll notice that the context menu will not appear. Tap the "city" text field again and the context menu will appear.

Current Behavior:

- When selecting several text fields that had information previously inserted into them, the context menu will not always appear

Expected Behavior:

- The context menu should always appear when a user selected the text field if previous information was inserted

Used the following build to find the issue:
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/2013-11-10-03-02-05-mozilla-central/

Comment 1

[Matt Brubeck (:mbrubeck)]

I think this might be intended behavior -- it matches Desktop Firefox, which doesn't show the form history suggestions unless you click a second time or start typing.  Do we want this to differ in Metro, or for touch input?

Comment 2

[Yuan Wang(:Yuan) – Mobile Firefox Design Lead]

I just tested this on Android tablet. It shows autofill the moment the text field gets focus, which is the "expected behavior" as Kamil mentioned. I think this approach definitely makes typing with touch a bit more convenient.

I am leaning towards adopting this on Metro, since it's designed for touch input. I can see for mouse and keyboard users, it might not be their expected behavior. Wondering if there is anyway to turn this on and off based on whether touch is enabled on the device?

Comment 3

[Brian R. Bondy [:bbondy]]

Since the current functionality which matches Desktop, is at least a reasonable solution. Even if it is not ideal, I think we should punt on this for v28 (i.e. v1).

Comment 4

[Matt Brubeck (:mbrubeck)]

Yes, we should be able to display the form fill popup on the first tap for touch, without changing the mouse behavior.   I agree with bbondy that we should push this to v2 if necessary.

Comment 5

[Firefox Bug Husbandry Bot]

Mass close of bugs in obsolete product https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1350354