Gmail password first character is case insensitive on mobile device

Re:Gmail password first character is case insensitive on mob... by p49k on Saturday October 09, 2021 @07:20AM (#28808866)

For a long time, in some browsers/OSes there was a bug (or perhaps an archaic feature that was accidentally triggered) where the cursor in an input could get stuck and cause all new characters to be inserted to the left; I'm assuming it's related to that.

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Re:Gmail password first character is case insensitive on mob... by Jenk on Saturday October 09, 2021 @07:23AM (#28808880)

Notably this was a bug on the input for _setting_ your password, so if you think you've set Password123, you might have actually set 321drowassP, so even after fixing the bug it would still bite many users.

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Re:Gmail password first character is case insensitive on mob... by Aachen on Saturday October 09, 2021 @08:29AM (#28809279)

This is the first I've heard of it, and as a Linux user I feel like it's the kind of thing I'd either know about or experienced first-hand. What kind of system would do that? And "for a long time", like, you can't ever login anywhere, it's kind of obvious and breaking functionality badly, how can this exist for more than a single release if at all?

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Re:Gmail password first character is case insensitive on mob... by p49k on Saturday October 09, 2021 @08:43AM (#28809368)

To be clear, it’s intermittent. Perhaps one in 500 times an input is focused, it exhibits this behavior.

I have experienced this so many times over my life with so many different hardware/software configurations, and I have to assume others have as well. It hasn’t happened in years but could explain why the “fix” described in the parent post was implemented.

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