Changing your email address is broken in Firefox under Ubuntu 18.04
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Description
I'm seeing this in Firefox 60.0.2 on Linux but am unable to reproduce it in Chrome or Epiphany. I have to enter my password in order to save the changed email address, but when I click on the empty password box it immediately moves the focus back to the email box:

Slightly different if I try to click in the password box without having edited the email:

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Research direction
Start by reproducing the email-change flow in Firefox on Ubuntu, using the two interaction cases described in the issue. Trace the email and password form behavior to identify why focus leaves the password field; done means the password can be entered and the changed email can be saved in Firefox without regressing the other browser cases.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- linux, ubuntu
- Domain
- frontend
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
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- 35/100