1008196 - Changing focus between application does not reset address bar selection

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: Untriaged, defect)

Description

[Jules Blok]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:29.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/29.0 (Beta/Release)
Build ID: 20140421221237

Steps to reproduce:

1. Click the address bar twice
2. Switch to another application
3. Switch back to Firefox by clicking on the address bar


Actual results:

The focus shifts back to the address bar, but no part of the URL is selected.


Expected results:

Normally when focus shifts to the address bar within Firefox it will automatically select the entire URL. This facilitates easy copy-pasting.

Switching focus to another application looks visually similar to shifting focus within Firefox, but the behaviour differs when switching focus back to the address bar.

Comment 1

[Camelia Badau [:cbadau], Desktop Test Engineering]

This is an intended behaviour. 

Please fill an enhancement for selecting automatically the entire URL when switching focus from another application back to Firefox.

Comment 2

[Jules Blok]

Is it really intended though? Because visually the address bar is shown to have lost focus to another application, but when you return focus to the address bar the behaviour is different.