990314 - Galaxy S4 keyboard appends to current url instead of replacing it

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 994472

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

Description

[Kevin Brosnan [Ex-Mozilla]]

Using the keyboard included with the Galaxy S4 Android 4.4.2 results in typing where the autocomplete matches and the current url end up with your typing appending to the string instead of overwriting it. This makes the address bar more or less unusable on this phone.

Work around is to install the Google Keyboard and use that https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.inputmethod.latin

Comment 1

[Kevin Brosnan [Ex-Mozilla]]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0go0p0-ytsc

Comment 2

[Aaron Train [:aaronmt]]

A bit of this reminds me of bug 986679.

Comment 3

[Kevin Brosnan [Ex-Mozilla]]

Except that this happens even when Gecko is up and running. Does anyone have a S4 running Samsung's  Android 4.3 ROM?

Comment 4

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

Can you get the keyboard's name and version? Is it only available on the S4?

Comment 5

[Kevin Brosnan [Ex-Mozilla]]

Samsung Keyboard 4.0 only available to recent Samsung devices (s4/note3) to the best of my knowledge.

Comment 6

[u428464]

(In reply to Aaron Train [:aaronmt] from comment #2)
> A bit of this reminds me of bug 986679.

It's the same issue. The gecko not being ready has in fact nothing to do with it (it's an Adblock plus bug). I thought wrongly so at the beginning.

Comment 7

[Kevin Brosnan [Ex-Mozilla]]

This phone does not have ABP installed.

Comment 8

[u428464]

(In reply to Kevin Brosnan [:kbrosnan] from comment #7)
> This phone does not have ABP installed.

I was referring to a thing I noticed in the other bug and I thought was related, but it's not the case.

Comment 10

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

Can you try this build (app name "Fennec nchen"), reproduce the bug, and attach the adb logcat? Thanks.

http://people.mozilla.org/~nchen/builds/bug990314-fennec-31.0a1.apk

Comment 11

[u428464]

I'm sorry but I can't right now. If I find the time I'll look at this in a few days.

Comment 12

[moses]

In response to Kevin's comment #5,

I'm think this occurs with the N7100 as well. My Note 2 is getting repaired so I'll give this bug a comment once I know for sure.

Comment 13

[Kevin Brosnan [Ex-Mozilla]]

Attachment: Log of typing in the address bar with Fennec_nchen

Placed a comment in the log *** Start typing moz here *** to make it easier to read.

Comment 14

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

The build in bug 994472 comment 8 might fix this bug.

Comment 15

[Kevin Brosnan [Ex-Mozilla]]

Yes, bug 994472 resolves the issue.