Web-bugs: start.duckduckgo.com - see bug description

[webcompat-bot]

URL: https://start.duckduckgo.com/

Browser / Version: Firefox Mobile (Tablet) 64.0
Operating System: Android 7.1.1
Tested Another Browser: Yes

Problem type: Something else
Description: korean language writeen twice or more
Steps to Reproduce:
ex.) 가나나다다라라마마바사사아아자자차차카카타타파하

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[miketaylr]

Description: korean language writeen twice or more

@karlcow do you know if this happens for Japanese too? Or just Korean?

(sorry, I'm being lazy...)

[karlcow]

What is written twice? When typing in the search form? or text from the site in the page. Let's assume this is the form. This is not happening if I type Japanese in the form. I don't have Korean input mode on my keyboard. But if someone would know about this issue it would be @tagawa

[tagawa]

I don't have Firefox on an Android tablet to test, but on desktop I'm not able to reproduce with Japanese, which I assume would be similar. I've also not heard any other reports of this from DuckDuckGo users. My instinct is it could be because of a Korean IME/keyboard bug. Happy to escalate it if there are further details.

[reinhart1010]

Yes, this is reproducible when you type Hangul characters as fast as possible (as many Koreans do).

Edit: The GIF conversion seems to be choppy. I have uploaded this to https://youtu.be/Gzlys9dRr6I (Lower quality, but keystrokes can be seen clearly) to prove this issue.

[softvision-sergiulogigan]

@karlcow let's put this back on track and move forward.

Yes, this is reproducible when you type Hangul characters as fast as possible (as many Koreans do).

Moving to Needsdiagnosis.

[karlcow]

@tagawa did you see this?

[tagawa]

I haven't seen any other DuckDuckGo-specific reports of this, but now I think it might be related to a separate issue mentioned by a Twitter friend, also Firefox on Android:

I wonder if Firefox has fixed that bug where the words repeated on a cellphone. They've had soso many weeks and numerous updates. Well, looks like the answer to thatthat isis nono. Back to Microsoft EdgeEdge thenthen, actually proving more reliable on a phonephone!

https://twitter.com/jackyan/status/1061979547967512576

He filed a Bugzilla report for it here:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1498777

The current status is resolved as "Incomplete" due to lack of info, but perhaps this Korean occurrence helps, if it's the same cause.

[karlcow]

Thanks a lot @tagawa This is super helpful.

[Lucire]

Thanks to @tagawa for linking me into this thread (I’m the person reporting the bug at Mozilla). I was able to repeat the bug on start.duckduckgo.com but typing in English. The initial words are usually fine but as you go on, the words begin repeating.

I use a Swype keyboard on a Meizu M2 Note running the Flyme flavour of Android 5·1.

I would like to know if the Korean phone mentioned above has Google Services on it.

As a very loyal DDG user of nearly a decade, I don’t have any Google things on my phone (I especially ordered it from a Chinese vendor to make sure it was free of all of their stuff) and I wonder if we have this in common.

[Lucire]

PS.: This bug did happen in English with Chrome on Android a while back, and it was eventually resolved. Here is a thread from 2013:

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=283616

[tagawa]

Thanks @Lucire. But just to clarify - it happens on other websites with text input boxes too, e.g. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/ ?

[Lucire]

@tagawa Yes, that’s correct: Bugzilla itself (I actually filed the bug report using my phone there), Twitter, Mastodon, anything with a text input box.

[reinhart1010]

I also reported this issue on BMO (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1444343) about 8 months ago, but I can't specify the real cause of the issue (hence I used a generic title name). There I reported these webcompat reports: #5564 #7589 #17427 #17833 #18777

On the report I stated that autocomplete / word suggestion feature must be turned on to reproduce this issue.

[makotokato]

I think that this will be fixed by https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1490391#c33.

Also, although GeckoView may still has this issue, it will be fixed by https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1510527

[karlcow]

@Lucire is it fixed?

[Lucire]

Thank you, @karlcow, it appears to be OK but since I began this thread, I damaged my screen and had to replace the phone. It’s still on Swype but on a newer version of Android, so I’m not comparing apples with apples.

[karlcow]

Let's assume that https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1490391 fixed it. Thanks a lot.