I am the one who confirmed your bug. It still affects me on 38.0.2125.111. It is quite subtle and minor nuisance. I'm not sure how to make this reproducible for someone else but I suspect it will require a large browsing history so you trigger a "relatively" long search in the suggestions list when you start typing. Clearing cache does not work.
On my machine, if I open a new tab and immediately and rapidly type "asdf", it always comes out mixed up. Now, if I press Esc so the address bar clears, and repeat this process, most of the time "adsf" comes out, otherwise "afsd" comes out. However, if I backspace out the characters and retype, "asdf" comes out correctly. If I do the mirror analogue with my right hand, ";lkj", it always comes out correctly. The main difference appears to be that when I type "a", a list of suggestions immediately appears, whereas when I type ";", there are no suggestions. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to chromium-browser in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1359265 Title: Characters mixing up in address bar Status in “chromium-browser” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: I hope this wasn't reported already, but couldn't find any recent reports. This is a relatively new bug, I don't think it was in v34. I often move the cursor to the address bar using F6 and instantly start typing my URL / search term afterwards. F6 leads to a quite noticable freeze while the suggestions box (or whatever that box below the bar is called) loads, at least on my aging ~5 years old system. Same issue when opening a new tab and starting to type, the suggestions take a while to load so chromium freezes for some time. That's not a big issue, but any characters I type during the freeze may come up in wrong order once chromium unfreezes. Sometimes they are ordered correctly, but quite often some of the letters are swapped. So it's not just in rare circumstances, but the freeze is not that easily reproducible because it seems to happen only when the bar wasn't used for some time. When there's no (or only a very short) freeze, there's no bug. At first I thought that my typing skills have suffered a lot because I was googling for slightly wrong terms all the time, but then noticed that chromium (or something that handles input and passes it to chromium?) is to blame, not me. [Or maybe I really hit the keys in a wrong order all the time while thinking that it is correct, but that seems unlikely, since I usually fix those finger syncing typos unconsciously.] ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04 Package: chromium-browser 36.0.1985.125-0ubuntu1.14.04.0~pkg1029 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-34.60-generic 3.13.11.4 Uname: Linux 3.13.0-34-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.3 Architecture: amd64 CurrentDesktop: Unity Date: Wed Aug 20 17:23:39 2014 Desktop-Session: DESKTOP_SESSION = ubuntu XDG_CONFIG_DIRS = /etc/xdg/xdg-ubuntu:/usr/share/upstart/xdg:/etc/xdg XDG_DATA_DIRS = /usr/share/ubuntu:/usr/share/gnome:/usr/local/share/:/usr/share/ Env: MOZ_PLUGIN_PATH = None LD_LIBRARY_PATH = None InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-03-10 (527 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Release amd64 (20121017.5) SourcePackage: chromium-browser UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to trusty on 2014-04-22 (120 days ago) gconf-keys: /desktop/gnome/applications/browser/exec = b'/usr/bin/chromium-browser\n'/desktop/gnome/url-handlers/https/command = b'/usr/bin/chromium-browser %s\n'/desktop/gnome/url-handlers/https/enabled = b'true\n'/desktop/gnome/url-handlers/http/command = b'/usr/bin/chromium-browser %s\n'/desktop/gnome/url-handlers/http/enabled = b'true\n'/desktop/gnome/session/required_components/windowmanager = b''/apps/metacity/general/compositing_manager = b''/desktop/gnome/interface/icon_theme = b'gnome\n'/desktop/gnome/interface/gtk_theme = b'Clearlooks\n' modified.conffile..etc.default.chromium.browser: [deleted] mtime.conffile..etc.chromium.browser.default: 2014-04-23T00:11:40.712095 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/chromium-browser/+bug/1359265/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
