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["Florian W." <1359265@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I was still able to reproduce this using Version
39.0.2171.65-0ubuntu0.14.04.1.1064 (hope we can get an update soon btw
:D), but it appears to be much more difficult now. It no longer happens
when I type at my normal typing speed. Maybe that's because the omnibar
suggestions apparently load pretty fast now, it used to be much slower.
Only characters typed while the suggestions load (i.e. chromium appears
to be frozen during that time) are mixed up.

The only way I can reproduce this now is:
- Open a new tab
- Concentrate and try to type "asdf" as fast as possible using the left hand
- Usually comes up as "adsf" in omnibar, like in 90% of attempts

I verified that my "asdf" typing skills are okay by opening gedit and
typing "asdf" as fast as possible 20 times. That worked correctly.

I'm not sure which input method I'm using. It's a USB keyboard. I tried
to find out how to identify my system's input method, but Google just
tells me how to type Japanese characters.

** Changed in: chromium-browser (Ubuntu)
       Status: Incomplete => Confirmed

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Title:
  Characters mixing up in address bar

Status in chromium-browser package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  I hope this wasn't reported already, but couldn't find any recent
  reports.

  This is a relatively new bug, I don't think it was in v34.

  I often move the cursor to the address bar using F6 and instantly
  start typing my URL / search term afterwards. F6 leads to a quite
  noticable freeze while the suggestions box (or whatever that box below
  the bar is called) loads, at least on my aging ~5 years old system.
  Same issue when opening a new tab and starting to type, the
  suggestions take a while to load so chromium freezes for some time.

  That's not a big issue, but any characters I type during the freeze
  may come up in wrong order once chromium unfreezes. Sometimes they are
  ordered correctly, but quite often some of the letters are swapped. So
  it's not just in rare circumstances, but the freeze is not that easily
  reproducible because it seems to happen only when the bar wasn't used
  for some time. When there's no (or only a very short) freeze, there's
  no bug.

  At first I thought that my typing skills have suffered a lot because I
  was googling for slightly wrong terms all the time, but then noticed
  that chromium (or something that handles input and passes it to
  chromium?) is to blame, not me. [Or maybe I really hit the keys in a
  wrong order all the time while thinking that it is correct, but that
  seems unlikely, since I usually fix those finger syncing typos
  unconsciously.]

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
  Package: chromium-browser 36.0.1985.125-0ubuntu1.14.04.0~pkg1029
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-34.60-generic 3.13.11.4
  Uname: Linux 3.13.0-34-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.3
  Architecture: amd64
  CurrentDesktop: Unity
  Date: Wed Aug 20 17:23:39 2014
  Desktop-Session:
   DESKTOP_SESSION = ubuntu
   XDG_CONFIG_DIRS = /etc/xdg/xdg-ubuntu:/usr/share/upstart/xdg:/etc/xdg
   XDG_DATA_DIRS = /usr/share/ubuntu:/usr/share/gnome:/usr/local/share/:/usr/share/
  Env:
   MOZ_PLUGIN_PATH = None
   LD_LIBRARY_PATH = None
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-03-10 (527 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Release amd64 (20121017.5)
  SourcePackage: chromium-browser
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to trusty on 2014-04-22 (120 days ago)
  gconf-keys: /desktop/gnome/applications/browser/exec = b'/usr/bin/chromium-browser\n'/desktop/gnome/url-handlers/https/command = b'/usr/bin/chromium-browser %s\n'/desktop/gnome/url-handlers/https/enabled = b'true\n'/desktop/gnome/url-handlers/http/command = b'/usr/bin/chromium-browser %s\n'/desktop/gnome/url-handlers/http/enabled = b'true\n'/desktop/gnome/session/required_components/windowmanager = b''/apps/metacity/general/compositing_manager = b''/desktop/gnome/interface/icon_theme = b'gnome\n'/desktop/gnome/interface/gtk_theme = b'Clearlooks\n'
  modified.conffile..etc.default.chromium.browser: [deleted]
  mtime.conffile..etc.chromium.browser.default: 2014-04-23T00:11:40.712095

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