On Thu, Oct 09, 2008 at 12:05:40PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Package: epiphany-browser > Version: 2.22.3-3 > Severity: normal > > My sister was unable to type lower-case 's' into web forms or epiphany's > url bar, after logging into her gmail account. Investigation showed: > > - Typing 's' resulted in apparently nothing happening. > - Cut and paste of 's' worked. > - Entering upper-case 'S' worked. > - Logging out of gmail did not fix the problem. > - The problem affected other tabs than the one used to log into gmail. > - The problem did not show up when using firefox to log into the same > gmail account. > - The problem did not manifest when using epiphany as another user on > the same machine and logging into the same gmail account. > - Closing the affected epiphany window, while leaving another epiphany window > open seemed to fix the problem (until the next time gmail was logged > into). > - gmail has a link at the top "Older version". Clicking on this link > immediatly > fixed the problem. (Oddly, it continued to say "Older version".) > - In gmail's settings, "Keyboard shortcuts" were off. (Only checked > after clicking on "Older version" tho. > > My guess is it somehow involves gmails keyboard shortcuts, which are > documented to include a key binding for the 's' key, along with other > keys (that did not seem to be affected). > > I don't understand how gmail's key bindings work, or how epiphany could > allow one web site to take over a key even once that website was closed. > This seems likely to involve some sort of security hole in epiphany.
I'm using epiphany-gecko and the new gmail interface too, and there is no such problem with the s key. Maybe you should try to take a look at X key events... Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
