A user, itsbhanusharma, reported that Firefox on Android 11 randomly deletes entire messages while composing personal messages in Discourse Meta, particularly after typing a few lines — possibly triggered by spacebar or period. A video demonstration was provided here. The issue did not occur in Chrome on Android or any desktop browsers, suggesting it’s isolated to Firefox on Android itsbhanusharma. sam asked if it repros in Chrome and invited others to confirm. j.jaffeux attempted to reproduce on a real Android 11 device with Firefox but could not. sam later followed up, and itsbhanusharma confirmed no recent repros but promised to reopen the topic if it returns. The issue remains unconfirmed by others and appears intermittent.
I’m consistently experiencing the issue with personal messages since yesterday, it randomly eats my entire message after I’m a few lines into writing a reply to a personal message. It is happening very randomly and I’ve only noticed it in personal messages here in discourse meta. I’ll add more details or repro steps if I get a consistent repro.
It is primarily happening on Firefox on Android 11
The above video shows the issue as it happens.
Seems like a combination of spacebar or period is triggering this but I’m not really sure.
Does it repro in Chrome as well?
Anyone else able to repro?
I’ll have to install chrome, will do once I’m home.
This doesn’t happen on chrome on android nor does it happen on any desktop browsers (be it chrome or firefox)
So it is an issue isolated to firefox on android.
Spend quite some time trying to repro on a real android 11.0 device with firefox in a PM and never had any repro. I would want to have at least another repro.
@itsbhanusharma is this issue still happening on latest Firefox?
I don’t have a repro as of today. Will surely open a topic if it spawns again.