[Bug 583122] Re: firefox occasionally highlights contents of form fields while typing thereby overwriting previously entered keystrokes

[Daniel Garmendiia]

Sorry, haven't tried in years.  No longer use ubuntu. Can't check.

Daniel

On Wed, Oct 17, 2018, 5:15 PM Olivier Tilloy <olivier.tilloy at canonical.com>
wrote:

> That's a very old bug, and there have been many firefox releases since
> then. Can anyone who originally reported the bug or commented on it
> confirm whether it still exists? Thanks!
>
> ** Changed in: firefox (Ubuntu)
>        Status: Triaged => Incomplete
>
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> Title:
>   firefox occasionally highlights contents of form fields while typing
>   thereby overwriting previously entered keystrokes
>
> Status in Mozilla Firefox:
>   New
> Status in firefox package in Ubuntu:
>   Incomplete
>
> Bug description:
>   Binary package hint: firefox
>
>   On occasion while typing into a form field in firefox (search field,
>   url field, webpage form field), after typing a few characters, the
>   browser will automatically highlight the previously entered
>   characters, causing my subsequently entered keystrokes to overwrite
>   the previously entered keystrokes.  I cannot reproduce this behavior
>   reliably, though it does happen quite often.  There are various
>   methods that I have used to make the problem go away, though none work
>   reliably.  These include closing the tab, hitting enter to cause a
>   pageload, restarting the browser.
>
>   I am using Ubuntu 10.04.  This problem was not present in Ubuntu 9.10
>   on the same hardware.  The firefox package version is 3.6.3+nobinonly-
>   0ubuntu4.
>
>   ProblemType: Bug
>   DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
>   Package: firefox 3.6.3+nobinonly-0ubuntu4
>   ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-22.33-generic 2.6.32.11+drm33.2
>   Uname: Linux 2.6.32-22-generic x86_64
>   Architecture: amd64
>   CheckboxSubmission: e8b67d75e6dc3e68647d9c34878edc73
>   CheckboxSystem: d00f84de8a555815fa1c4660280da308
>   Date: Wed May 19 20:21:20 2010
>   FirefoxPackages:
>    firefox 3.6.3+nobinonly-0ubuntu4
>    firefox-gnome-support 3.6.3+nobinonly-0ubuntu4
>    firefox-branding 3.6.3+nobinonly-0ubuntu4
>    abroswer N/A
>    abrowser-branding N/A
>   InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release amd64 (20091027)
>   ProcEnviron:
>    LANG=en_US.utf8
>    SHELL=/bin/bash
>   SourcePackage: firefox
>
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