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Mobile search in Firefox repeats first letters
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On a Firefox Mobile, every time I enter a search term in the top search box in a mobile version of a Wikimedia site (e.g. fr.wikipedia), some letters are repeated. More precisely it appears like this, if I try to enter "Abcde":

  • A
  • AAb
  • AAbc
  • AAbcAbcd
  • AAbcAbcde

And then the letters are entered correctly. It behaves identically if I try to add letters to an existing search term.
This doesn't happen in Chrome or the default browser on the same device.

Firefox 36
Android 4.4.2
Samsung Galaxy Note 3

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Darkdadaah created this task.Mar 6 2015, 5:17 PM
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• KLans_WMF moved this task from Incoming to Old Unorganized Resolved Tasks on the Web-Team-Backlog board.Mar 6 2015, 6:09 PM
• bmansurov subscribed.Mar 10 2015, 5:35 PM

@Darkdadaah, thanks for reporting this. Can you share a screenshot too? If I understood you correctly, the texts you provided appear in the searchbox, right?

Darkdadaah added a comment.Mar 10 2015, 5:45 PM

Here is a screenshot, after I typed "Abcde" in the searchbox at the top of the page:

fr.wiktionary_search_char_repeat.png (1×1 px, 294 KB)

This error happens consistently, but it would be good to know if other users of Firefox on Android have the same problem.

• bmansurov added a comment.Mar 10 2015, 5:58 PM

@Darkdadaah, thanks, I'm partially able to reproduce this on Firefox 36.0.1 on Android 5.0.2. I can briefly see what you have in your screenshot, but it goes away after a split second.

phuedx subscribed.Mar 10 2015, 6:03 PM

I can reproduce this in Firefox Beta 36.0 for Android.

• bmansurov claimed this task.Mar 10 2015, 6:15 PM
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• bmansurov added a comment.Mar 10 2015, 8:38 PM

Turns out it's a bug on Firefox for Android [1].

[1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=735806

• bmansurov removed • bmansurov as the assignee of this task.Mar 12 2015, 8:50 PM
• JKatzWMF subscribed.Apr 14 2015, 8:35 PM

@bmansurov is there anything we can do for this, or does it belong in "tracking"?

• JKatzWMF moved this task from Old Unorganized Resolved Tasks to 2015-16 Q4 on the Web-Team-Backlog board.Apr 14 2015, 8:35 PM
• bmansurov added a comment.Apr 14 2015, 8:37 PM

@JKatzWMF, I think at this stage it may belong to 'tracking', unless we decide to work around the browser bug.

• JKatzWMF added a comment.Apr 17 2015, 12:34 AM

@bmansurov Great, thanks!

Darkdadaah added a comment.May 6 2015, 3:57 PM

I can't reproduce this bug anymore on both Firefox 37.0.2 and 38.0 beta. It was still buggy with 37.0.1 and 38.0 (not sure if the beta was exactly the same).

Anyway, it may be fixed now. @phuedx and @bmansurov can you check?

• bmansurov added a comment.May 6 2015, 5:19 PM

I confirm that the bug is not re-producable on Firefox 37.0.2 on Android Lollipop.

Jdlrobson closed this task as Resolved.Sep 16 2015, 6:25 PM
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Fixed upstream in latest Firefox release. Thanks guys for reporting/investigating/confirming fix!

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