181014 - mouseless navigation: element focus not remembered when returning to previous page

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 36539

(Core :: DOM: UI Events & Focus Handling, defect)

Description

[Leston Buell]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021109
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021109

Sorry, couldn't decide on what the appropriate component was for this.

This is an issue for mouseless navigation. When you use the tab key to tab
through links and then hit Enter to visit the link, if you return to the
original page (by hitting the back button, for example), the browser will
remember the scroll position, but not the element in focus. If you hit the tab
key, you'll be returned to the first focusable element from the top of the page.
This makes mouseless navigation very tedious if you're trying to visit several
links from a single page.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Visit the Bulbul's Links page at  
   <http://www.fizzylogic.com/users/bulbul/links.html>.
2. Tab down to a link low in the page. Visit the link by pressing Enter.
3. Return to Bulbul's Links by hitting Back or keying Alt+<-.
4. Try to visit the next link on that page, mouselessly. 
   The link which was in focus when you left the page is no 
   longer in focus.
   If you press tab, you'll be returned to the top of the page 
   and will need to tab all the way down again. 
   There's no way to go straight to the next link.

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

"keyboard navigation".  ;)

And this is a duplicate

Comment 2

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 36539 ***

Comment 3

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

v dup