623252 - Button doesn't not acquire focus when clicked

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 577316

(Core :: General, defect)

Description

[Alessandro Vernet]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:2.0b7) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0b7
Build Identifier: 4.0b8

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Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Load http://jsfiddle.net/avernet/Zm7Fx/
2. Set the focus in the input field. 
3. Click on the "Nothing" button.
Actual Results:  
The input still has the focus.

Expected Results:  
I would expect the button to acquire to the focus when clicked. This is what happened with previous versions (e.g. Firefox 3.6) and what happens with other browsers.

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

This was a purposeful change on Mac only; apparently on Mac the system behavior is to not focus buttons when they are clicked.

There is a preference you can set to get the old behavior.  See the discussion in bug 577316.

Comment 2

[Alessandro Vernet]

(In reply to comment #1)
> *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 577316 ***

Got it; thank you. I created Bug 623291, which is more specific, and I hope compatible with the decisions taken for bug 577316.