Bug #1171
openbackground open doesn't work after used once per tab
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Updated by Soren Stoutner 10 months ago
My experience is that this is actually on of the WebView bugs introduced with Android 14. Specifically, it appears to be something to do with the way the WebView is processing inputs. It tends to affect some websites much more than others, lending me to think it might be related to the JavaScript that is being processed. For example, I personally find it happens a lot with https://www.deseret.com/.
When I experience this problem it is often after a scroll event is incorrectly detected as a fling, which is then over processed (it scrolls massively fast to the bottom of a page). After that, it doesn't process touch events correctly (long-pressing on a link doesn't pull up the context menu). Of all the thing I have tried to fix this, the only thing that has worked so far is moving the WebView off the screen by switching to another tab and then switching back. My guess is that a bunch of logic is run whenever the view is hidden and then redisplayed that corrects whatever has become confused in WebView's touch processing.
There doesn't appear to be anything I can do to fix this problem, but I expect Google to fix it in a future WebView update. It might be fixed at the same time as Bug #1106: New intents sometimes aren't loaded on restart on Android 14 (WebView crash). They might even have the same underlying cause.
Updated by Soren Stoutner 10 months ago
I'm not sure what you mean by drag and drop.
Updated by Soren Stoutner 10 months ago
That's interesting because it is not how my device behaves. Regardless, it appears to be fully a problem with WebView than can only be fixed by an update to their code.
Updated by ask low 10 months ago
- File drag-n-drop.mp4 drag-n-drop.mp4 added
This is the thing that I'm talking about
Updated by Soren Stoutner 10 months ago
That's interesting. It's not how my device behaves. If I thought there was something I could do about it I would try to narrow down why it is different for you than for me, but because I can't do anything about it I would rather spend the time on more fruitful endeavors.