difficulty entering text
Whenever I am in a text entry box in mobile Firefox, it is extremely difficult getting the text entered correctly. Firefox "stutters", hesitating before accepting most of the characters, and will usually insert a space between each and ever single one of them as well. This requires me to go backward through the entry after I have completed it and delete all the added spaces. I also invariably have to re-type all the "i"s, because Firefox has converted them to capital I's, seeing them mistakenly as stand-alone. This is a constant never-ending problem with Firefox. It never goes away.
In addition, Firefox will often randomly close the keyboard window and will suddenly return to its main screen, sometimes having taken it upon itself to press <return> on the keyboard in the process, usually resulting in a wrong entry, and forcing me to laboriously begin all over again.
I love Firefox on my desktop and would gladly use it on my mobile as well, but right now, the only time I ever use mobile Firefox is when I performing a large download, because it handles downloads better than the default Android browser. For all other uses, it's just too clumsy, with the text entry fiasco and makes for a very unpleasant experience.
Chosen solution
We have the best compatibility with the stock keyboard. Swype or Swiftkey or similar keyboards can cause problems. You can switch quickly by long tapping on an input field in Firefox and choosing "select input method".
We are working at having better 3rd party keyboard support. This work should be done in March or April of the new year.
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Chosen Solution
We have the best compatibility with the stock keyboard. Swype or Swiftkey or similar keyboards can cause problems. You can switch quickly by long tapping on an input field in Firefox and choosing "select input method".
We are working at having better 3rd party keyboard support. This work should be done in March or April of the new year.
That makes a huge difference, thank you. I have switched to the "Touch Entry" keyboard, and that seems to have solved the problem. Thank you very much, and I'll look forward to the version you mentioned for next spring.
This is really annoying. If I have to choose between Firefox and Swiftkey, I choose Swiftkey. Sorry...
another thing thats super annoying is that when im typing password ( numbers) the cursor suddenly moves to middle of my password while iitype fast, so that if my password is 123456789, it suddenly becomes 123789456 and its freakin annoying. and im using stock keyboard on android 4.0.4 tablet. also if iiwant to type 'i' it becomes ii .it inserts another i. same as aa . please fix the issues. its already May 2012.