As you can see, the autocomplete popup is just barely visible there at the bottom, hidden inside the un-expanded input window. I have to move my hand from the keyboard back to my mouse to manually expand the window every single time in order to see the autocomplete pop-up, basically rendering any time gain to be a wash.
I can’t even really remember how it was before, was the autocomplete popup somehow outside of the input window, or was the input window always more expanded than it is now, or something else?
I spent some time looking into this but haven’t found a good solution so far. It seems there are significant differences in Firefox’s rendering that make it difficult to enable the popup to extend beyond the bounds of the input area without either decoupling the popup from the location where you’re typing or losing the ability to resize the input area. Starting with a larger input area could help somewhat, but it would still start to cut off the popup if the expression spans multiple lines and you’re typing closer to the bottom of the box.
I’m not sure. I didn’t see any recent change in the relevant code or upgrade of the plugin. My guess is a Firefox update may have changed something about how this is rendered (could be a bug on their end).
Since the input height automatically adjusts to match the number of lines typed (up to a point), we’re considering whether it’s worth removing the resize handle in Firefox in order to fix this. Newlines could still be used to resize the box, but it would be less convenient and discoverable.
Losing the handle would definitely be a bummer, but I know I’m personally also used to dropping a bunch of new lines in a window to reposition where I’m typing and where my focus is, so it probably wouldn’t be a huge hassle for me.
Regaining proper use of the autocomplete window does seem to be more important, efficiency-wise.
