Bug#501691: the case of the missing 's'
Joey Hess
joeyh at debian.org
Thu Oct 9 16:05:40 UTC 2008
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.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages epiphany-browser depends on:
ii epiphany-gecko 2.22.3-3 Intuitive GNOME web browser - Geck
epiphany-browser recommends no packages.
epiphany-browser suggests no packages.
Versions of packages epiphany-gecko depends on:
ii dbus-x11 1.2.1-3 simple interprocess messaging syst
ii epiphany-browser-data 2.22.3-3 Data files for the GNOME web brows
ii gnome-icon-theme 2.22.0-1 GNOME Desktop icon theme
ii iso-codes 3.3-1 ISO language, territory, currency,
ii libart-2.0-2 2.3.20-2 Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii libatk1.0-0 1.22.0-1 The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii libavahi-client3 0.6.22-3 Avahi client library
ii libavahi-common3 0.6.22-3 Avahi common library
ii libavahi-gobject0 0.6.22-3 Avahi GObject library
ii libbonobo2-0 2.22.0-1 Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
ii libbonoboui2-0 2.22.0-1 The Bonobo UI library
ii libc6 2.7-13 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libcairo2 1.6.4-6 The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii libdbus-1-3 1.2.1-3 simple interprocess messaging syst
ii libdbus-glib-1-2 0.76-1 simple interprocess messaging syst
ii libenchant1c2a 1.4.2-3.1 a wrapper library for various spel
ii libfontconfig1 2.6.0-1 generic font configuration library
ii libfreetype6 2.3.7-2 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii libgcc1 1:4.3.1-9 GCC support library
ii libgconf2-4 2.22.0-1 GNOME configuration database syste
ii libglade2-0 1:2.6.2-1 library to load .glade files at ru
ii libglib2.0-0 2.16.5-1 The GLib library of C routines
ii libgnome-desktop-2 2.22.3-2 Utility library for loading .deskt
ii libgnome2-0 2.20.1.1-1 The GNOME 2 library - runtime file
ii libgnomecanvas2-0 2.20.1.1-1 A powerful object-oriented display
ii libgnomeui-0 2.20.1.1-1 The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf
ii libgnomevfs2-0 1:2.22.0-5 GNOME Virtual File System (runtime
ii libgtk2.0-0 2.12.11-3 The GTK+ graphical user interface
ii libice6 2:1.0.4-1 X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii libnotify1 [libnotify1 0.4.4-3 sends desktop notifications to a n
ii libnspr4-0d 4.7.1-4 NetScape Portable Runtime Library
ii liborbit2 1:2.14.13-0.1 libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii libpango1.0-0 1.20.5-2 Layout and rendering of internatio
ii libpixman-1-0 0.10.0-2 pixel-manipulation library for X a
ii libpng12-0 1.2.27-1 PNG library - runtime
ii libpopt0 1.14-4 lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii libsm6 2:1.0.3-2 X11 Session Management library
ii libstartup-notificatio 0.9-1 library for program launch feedbac
ii libstdc++6 4.3.1-9 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii libx11-6 2:1.1.5-1 X11 client-side library
ii libxcb-render-util0 0.2.1+git1-1 utility libraries for X C Binding
ii libxcb-render0 1.1-1.1 X C Binding, render extension
ii libxcb1 1.1-1.1 X C Binding
ii libxcursor1 1:1.1.9-1 X cursor management library
ii libxext6 2:1.0.4-1 X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii libxfixes3 1:4.0.3-2 X11 miscellaneous 'fixes' extensio
ii libxi6 2:1.1.3-1 X11 Input extension library
ii libxinerama1 2:1.0.3-2 X11 Xinerama extension library
ii libxml2 2.6.32.dfsg-4 GNOME XML library
ii libxrandr2 2:1.2.3-1 X11 RandR extension library
ii libxrender1 1:0.9.4-2 X Rendering Extension client libra
ii libxslt1.1 1.1.24-2 XSLT processing library - runtime
ii python2.5 2.5.2-11 An interactive high-level object-o
ii xulrunner-1.9 1.9.0.1-1 XUL + XPCOM application runner
ii xulrunner-1.9-gnome-su 1.9.0.1-1 Support for GNOME in xulrunner app
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-12 compression library - runtime
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