Firefox: Modal dialogs with password fields instantly hide.

[Lutchy Horace (lhprojects)]

When I use Bitwarden extension by clicking on the icon, the popup immediately hides. See [1], although further digging suggest the bug was/in iBus, see [2] and [3]. Although, the source (or code path) originates from Gnome-Shell, see [4] and [5]. There is a propose fixed but it hasn't been merged. I'm reporting the issue here, so it can at least be tracked and I can get notified when it arrives in Ubuntu.

Note: This issue affects all extensions that uses 'password field', see [6].

Firefox-Version: 62.0
Dist-Version: Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS
Gnome-Shell-Version: 3.28.3-0ubuntu0.18.04.2
iBus-Version: 1.5.17-3ubuntu4

1. https://github.com/bitwarden/browser/issues/694
2. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1405634#c16
3. https://github.com/ibus/ibus/issues/2002#issuecomment-386537208
4. https://github.com/ibus/ibus/issues/2002#issuecomment-402596959
5. https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/issues/391
6. https://github.com/MetaMask/metamask-extension/issues/3313#issuecomment-418677844

[Jim Campbell (jwcampbell)]

The patch to resolve this bug was just accepted to upstream gnome-shell master: see https - gitlab.gnome dot org/GNOME/gnome-shell/merge_requests/140 (For some reason launchpad is not letting me submit a comment with a URL).

Might it be possible to back-port this patch to GNOME Shell 3.28 for Bionic?

[Bèr Kessels (berkes) (ber)]

The project name is metamask, but launchpad does not allow this to be added. Metamask Firefox plugin is affected, so renaming to firefox for now.

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

Sounds like bug 1765304.

Please update your system to get the fix for bug 1765304 and tell us if the problem still occurs.