Bug 1067395

Summary:	Screen Keyboard in firefox needs restart to work
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7	Reporter:	Martin Simon <msimon>
Component:	firefox	Assignee:	Martin Stransky <stransky>
Status:	CLOSED WORKSFORME	QA Contact:	Desktop QE <desktop-qa-list>
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Version:	7.0	CC:	andy, jeischma, tpelka
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Description Martin Simon 2014-02-20 11:37:04 UTC

Description of problem:
When I have firefox running and enable Screen Keyboard accessibility, it simply doesn't work in firefox, but it does in other gnome components (like gnome-terminal or xchat). I need to restart firefox with Screen Keyboard accessibility option enabled to get it work.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
firefox-24.3.0-2.el7.x86_64
gnome-shell-3.8.4-22.el7.x86_64
xulrunner-24.3.0-1.el7.x86_64

How reproducible:
100%

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Make sure you have Screen Keyboard disabled
2. Start firefox and gnome-terminal
3. Enable Screen Keyboard accessibility
4. Focus on any input field in firefox
5. Focus on gnome-terminal

Actual results:
Firefox does not invoke on-screen keyboard although the gnome-terminal does

Expected results:
in both cases the on-screen keyboard should be shown

Additional info:

Comment 1 Martin Stransky 2014-11-19 12:10:53 UTC

Well, and how to enable the "Screen Keyboard accessibility"?

Comment 2 Martin Simon 2014-11-19 13:26:38 UTC

It's called "On Screen Keyboard" now and you can enable it with Settings (system user menu) -> Universal Access -> tab Typing -> On Screen Keyboard.

However, not it seems to be working on firefox-31.2.0-3.el7_0.x86_64 (although it's not stable, e.g. some time the keyboard appears even when no input field nor text box is focused and it doesn't want to disappear or e.g. when i started firefox and firefox's default home page appears, i got no on screen keyboard)

Comment 4 Martin Stransky 2015-05-21 10:06:59 UTC

*** Bug 1221521 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 6 Tomas Pelka 2017-02-17 09:10:31 UTC

With 3.22 gnome-shell and firefox 52

Comment 7 Andy 2021-09-03 09:26:16 UTC

Upstream bug: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1601840