117555 - Url Text box disabled in a tabbed environment

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 82534

(SeaMonkey :: Tabbed Browser, defect)

Description

[Jacob Cagley]

In a tabbed envirnment, the url text box is disabled if a java applet is running
on one of the tabs.

Open two tabs
Go to yahoo and load one of the games on one tab.
Try to type in www.cnn.com on another tab

Comment 1

[John Morrison]

worksforme, mozilla 0.9.7 with JRE 1.3.1 on win2k. I don't have a yahoo id to 
play those games, so I created two tabs, loaded http://java.sun.com/ in the 
first tab, switched to the second tab, typed www.cnn.com, hit enter, and cnn 
loaded in the second tab.

So, does this depend on the particular applet (name a specific game to play). 
What version is the JRE.

Comment 2

[Jacob Cagley]

gateway, mozilla 0.9.6 with JRE 1.3.1 on win2k

Steps to reproduce the bug ( I was not able to reproduce it with java.sun.com
but that may be because of the user input capabilites of yahoo.com games)

Start Mozilla
Create 2 tabs
Goto yahoo.com in the first
Goto cnn.com in the second

Return to yahoo.com
Click on games
Click on crossword
Click on any crossword puzzle
Answer a few clues

Minimize the browser and do something else for 30 sec to a minute
Restore the browser (click the app in the windows application bar)

Try to select anything in the url edit box.

Note
After reminimizing and then restoring the window again, the edit box was enabled
again

The problem with this bug is that would always arise after I had performed
numerous functions within the tabbed environment.  In trying to narrow down the
steps to reproduce the bug, I am leaving out numerous other web site hits that I
do on a daily basis (all with the crossword applet from yahoo running)

If I had to make a guess as to where the bug was, I would say probably in the
window regeneration from a minimized state to a restored state.  But I do not
know how the component work becuase I do know that they were all written from
the ground up and do not take advantage of any windows functions. 

Comment 3

[Jacob Cagley]

I have found a way to get the url box to be re-enabled after it has been
disabled.  If you do File -> Open Web Location and then cancel, the url eidt box
will return.  Also, it seems as though all edit boxes become disabled after the
browser running the java component is minimalized and then restored.  I have
also that the bug to appear in a non-tabbed environment.

Comment 4

[Pete Boyd]

reporter, if you have a more recent build of Mozilla, are you still able to
reproduce this?

Comment 5

[Pete Boyd]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 82534 ***