215756 - Focus lost when switching tabs

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 120148

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

Description

[Ben Goodger (use ben at mozilla dot org for email)]

Steps to reproduce:

1. start browser (seamonkey or firebird) 
2. open a new tab (so you have two tabs open)
3. load www.google.com in the new tab. the search box receives focus once the
page has loaded.
4. switch to the first tab
5. switch back to the google tab

Expected results:
- search box is still focused (caret blinking) in the google tab

Actual results:
- focus went away. 

Notes: if I type, nothing appears in the field (in fact, find-as-you-type is
invoked) but the page still has the notion that the search box is focused,
because if I hit TAB, focus shifts to the "Google Search" button which is the
next in the tabbing order from the search box which should have been focused.

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 120148 ***

Comment 2

[Jonas Jørgensen]

vrfy