First letter doubled in Facebook posts.

[Callista Graves]

I am running elementary OS Loki right now, and have been struggling with justifying using the Epiphany browser as my default, but with this bug it is simply impossible.

When on Facebook, and typing the first word in a post, or in a sentence, the letter is always doubled, when using the shift key.

It is nearly impossible to find any information on the internet about this, and while I would prefer to run Epiphany as default browser, this is a deal breaker for me.

[Callista Graves (callistagraves)]

And I am sorry, but there is nowhere in the elementary Launchpad to file a bug for this.

[wolf (w+lf)]

Does this only occur in Epiphany or in other browsers too?

[Callista Graves (callistagraves)]

Just Epiphany. 3.18.5

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Callista Graves (callistagraves)]

Thank you!

[Michael Catanzaro (mike-catanzaro)]

Note this is already fixed in the latest stable version of WebKitGTK+. We are behind in releasing a security advisory, but you should really make sure you have the latest version, as always.

[Jeremy Bícha (jbicha)]

Ok, I'm reassigning this to webkit2gtk then. The latest webkit2gtk is in Ubuntu 17.04 Alpha and Ubuntu 16.10 mostly * but not in 16.04 LTS.

[Jeremy Bícha (jbicha)]

Michael, can you make anything out about bug 1637364?

It halted the rollout of the latest webkit2gtk to Ubuntu 16.10 to those who use the GUI update-manager (those who the command line or gnome-software to update will get the update anyway).

http://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-archive/phased-updates.html

Unfortunately, I couldn't tell by looking what app triggered the crash, nor does errors.ubuntu.com work like a normal bug tracker where users can provide additional info and can be asked questions.

Earlier this week, the crashy gnome-shell plugin stopped the rollout but I had that error ignored.

[Callista Graves (callistagraves)]

So, how would I go about installing the fix on elementary loki? Should I wait?

[Michael Catanzaro (mike-catanzaro)]

Hi Jeremy. Sorry, seems I messed up my email settings and missed your comment. I'll leave another comment on bug #1637364.

Unfortunately I was somehow wrong about this issue; when I posted in the upstream bug to say it was fixed in WebKit, I got comments telling me that I was wrong. In the end we finally fixed it earlier this week. It turned out to be a bug in Epiphany. I made a very quick attempt to backport the change to 3.18-3.22 but failed; there is just one more function that needs to be called to not break keyboard shortcuts, so I don't think it should be too hard, I just didn't spend much time on it.

Callista: yes, wait.

[Michael Catanzaro (mike-catanzaro)]

OK, backported: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/ftp-release-list/2016-November/msg00073.html

I'll do 3.20/3.22 releases next month.

[Michael Catanzaro (mike-catanzaro)]

(Changed my mind, I'll do all releases today. Early and often yada yada.)