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Item selector in Firefox searches for highlighted item
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Description

Steps to replicate the issue (include links if applicable):

  • Open any item in Firefox (I'm on Firefox version 124.0 (64-bit) on Ubuntu FWIW). I will use https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q73620655 as an example. You can do this when not logged in
  • Click "Add statement"
  • Add a new property "language of work or name"
  • Use up/down buttons to select "Chinese"

What happens?:

  • When highlighting any of the suggestions, the item selector searches for that suggestion and gives new suggestions based on the label of the highlighted item

What should have happened instead?:

  • The list should remain pretty static (except for loading new suggestions at the bottom, of course)

Software version (skip for WMF-hosted wikis like Wikipedia):

Other information (browser name/version, screenshots, etc.):
Happens both when I'm logged in and logged out, but only in Firefox, not in Chrome.


All I'm doing in this screencast is to use the up/down keys to select items.

Event Timeline

jhsoby renamed this task from Item selector in Firefox searches for temporarily selected item to Item selector in Firefox searches for temporarily highlighted item.Mar 19 2024, 8:44 AM
jhsoby renamed this task from Item selector in Firefox searches for temporarily highlighted item to Item selector in Firefox searches for highlighted item.
Lydia_Pintscher subscribed.

I just tried to reproduce it in Firefox and can't seem to recreate the issue. It works as intended.
Can anyone else reproduce it?

Lucas said in Telegram that he couldn't reproduce it either. Really weird.

For me it's happening both logged in and logged out (incognito mode), and I've also tried disabling all browser add-ons, with the same result. It started happening 2 days before my report, coinciding with updating several programs on my computer (I think Firefox was one of them, not sure how to check).