253015 - changing search engine doesn't set focus to search box

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Firefox :: Search, defect)

Description

[Robert Whittaker]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win 9x 4.90; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040614 Firefox/0.9
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win 9x 4.90; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040614 Firefox/0.9

When a user changes the search engine it is typically to either run a different
seach on an existing term, or just before changing the text to something else.
Either way it is desirable to have the focus on the search box, and the currect
search term highlighted.

Version 0.7 did exhibit this expected behaviour, but 0.8+ seems to have this
bug. The first time the engine is changed the expected behaviour is found, but
not thereafter.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Start Firefox
2. type text in quicksearch box
3. Click in page to transfer focus
4. Use mouse to change search engine
5. Click in page to transfer focus
6. Use mouse to change search engine again
Actual Results:  
Focus is not changed back to the search box.

Expected Results:  
Search box gets the focus, and text becomes highlighted.

I have also reproduced these results on a different computer (Win2k) with a
clean install of the most recent nightly build on 2004-07-24.

Related request here: http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=225715 , which
if implemented would make this moot. However, I think the behaviour outlined
here is preferable.

Comment 1

[Markus Lindström]

Confirming bug in latest nightly: focus gets lost when trying to change the
search engine the second time.

-> NEW?

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040724
Firefox/0.9.1+

Comment 2

[Tracy Walker [:tracy]]

confirmed with latest branch build on Win XP

Comment 3

[Pierre Chanial]

fixed on branch

Comment 4

[Peter van der Woude [:Peter6]]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8a6) Gecko/20050108
Firefox/1.0+

WFM

Comment 5

[Steffen Wilberg]

This should be fixed on trunk by the aviary landing.