Force virtual keyboard to automatically pop up for Firefox browser, even on non-touch Windows 10 devices. Starting with Firefox 43 (currently in beta), Firefox browser automatically pops up the on-screen keyboard when a text field is touched by the user on his Windows 10 tablet.
If you don’t have a touch screen (and using a Windows 10 computer with keyboard and mouse), don’t worry! You can still able to make On-screen keyboard to appear in Firefox browser, without need to disconnect the physical keyboard.
You must have Firefox 43 beta or higher installed to do this, because this version of “Firefox now automatically shows the on-screen touch keyboard on Windows 8 and higher”
1. In Windows 10, click on the Action Center icon, and select ‘Tablet mode‘
2. Open Firefox browser, visit about:config, find and change the preference ui.osk.detect_physical_keyboard value to false
3. Now OSK or virtual keyboard pops up automatically in Mozilla browser.
Has this worked for you?
seems to work. except when using the full keyboard, and using the ‘tab key’ to get to the next input field the keyboard disappears. you have to physically click on the field, but this only works when the field is not active yet… the window also doesn’t adjust, i.e. here i can’t select the email field as it is hidden behind the keyboard and i can’t scroll down.
How can I swich off pop-up on-screen keyboard mode in FF43, as I do not want to use it? Thank you. (Windows 8.1)
Under Windows 8 OSK turns on and off whenever I enter or leave field with text input. Firefox’s window is constantly resizing, this is very annoying. What could I do to lock OSK on the screen?
Did you try un-maximizing the keyboard? When the keyboard is maximized the apps will treat the top of the keyboard as the bottom of the screen and resize. when the keyboard is not maximized you should be able to see a little space on either side of it and apps will keep their windows full-height.