[tor-bugs] #7100 [EFF-HTTPS Everywhere]: Firefox location bar loses focus with HTTPS Everywhere and suggestions enabled
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#7100: Firefox location bar loses focus with HTTPS Everywhere and suggestions
enabled
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Reporter: cypherpunks | Owner: pde
Type: defect | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone:
Component: EFF-HTTPS Everywhere | Version: HTTPS-E 3.0.0
Keywords: | Parent:
Points: | Actualpoints:
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While typing in the location bar with suggestions enabled
(browser.urlbar.autocomplete.enabled set to true), after the first
characters typed have caused some suggestions to appear, as soon as a
character is typed that does not match any of the suggestions, the
location bar loses focus. This problem disappears when HTTPS Everywhere
is disabled and reappears when HTTPS Everywhere is enabled. (It also
disappears when browser.urlbar.autocomplete.enabled is set to false, but
that reduces usability of Firefox too much to be a workaround.)
The bug does not occur with every instance of Firefox, and if an instance
of Firefox does not exhibit the problem, it will not exhibit it even if
running for a long time. On the other hand, if an instance of Firefox has
the problem, it will not disappear while that instance is running. It
seems to me that the probability of getting a buggy instance of Firefox is
correlated to the amount of history data available, i.e. probability is
somewhat low with a fresh install of Firefox, then gradually rises as the
history database fills up.
I am using Firefox 16.0.1 (and have had the problem for several releases
of Firefox before that) with NoScript and AdBlock Plus installed as
extensions. There are no plugins. OS is GNU/Linux using Debian 6.0.6 as
base distribution.
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