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I cannot type Russian letters: х, ъ, ж, э, б, ю into URL-bar and both of search fields, web-search and page text search.

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I cannot type Russian letters: х, ъ, ж, э, б, ю into URL-bar and both of search fields, web-search and page text search. You have this retrobug for SEVERAL YEARS!!! Firefox now 59, Windows 10x64

P.S. Uppercase letters Х, Ъ, Ж, Э, Б, Ю are typed normally, as all other letters.

I cannot type Russian letters: х, ъ, ж, э, б, ю into URL-bar and both of search fields, web-search and page text search. You have this retrobug for SEVERAL YEARS!!! Firefox now 59, Windows 10x64 P.S. Uppercase letters Х, Ъ, Ж, Э, Б, Ю are typed normally, as all other letters.

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Which language version of FF did you install?

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British, as I install for a dozen years (since Phoenix).

This bug appears several times this year or another, then it sounds be fixed, then reappears again.

Additional report: in ver.59 this bug is related to address bar too.

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To submit suggestions for new or changed features, may I suggest: Feedback: https://qsurvey.mozilla.com/s3/FirefoxInput/ or https://discourse.mozilla.org/c/add-ons If you have a bug, file a bug report. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/ Bug Writing Guidelines : https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/QA/Bug_writing_guidelines

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Are you switching the keyboard layout to Russian or are you using other ways to type these characters?

Can you paste these characters in the location/address bar or does that fails as well?

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Hello!

Pasting is ok.

It's the typing process that has flaws.

I can type-in almost all Russian lowercase letters except listed above into:

  • web-search
  • in-page-search
  • address-bar
  • plugin-search
  • find-in-options
  • home-page-url
  • save-files-to-downloads-field
  • content-handling-applications
  • manual-proxy-configuration
  • device name for sync

All these places revoke typing "хъжэбю". It seems that system input fields of Firefox are all coded the same way.

I can type-in completely all Russian uppercase letters, including "ХЪЖЭБЮ".

I noticed this retrobug in Fx 58.some. I rechecked this bug in Fx 52ESR - everything is ok, correct, flawless.

I haven't installed all the versions from 57 all the way down to 52 to limit bug scope. And I haven't checked this bug in 58..59Russian or x32 (could try in spare time).

And I remember this bug in some versions during long history of Phoenix/Firebird/Firefox.

End User trɔe

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It would be better to create a bug report on https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/enter_bug.cgi and provide here a bug number.