Open Bug 1327585 Opened 7 years ago Updated 2 years ago

It's possible to accidentally switch tabs while holding right key if modal dialog appears

Categories

(Firefox :: Tabbed Browser, defect)

Product:
Firefox
Component:
Tabbed Browser
Type:
defect

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People

(Reporter: arni2033, Unassigned)

Details

>>>   My Info:   Win7_64, Nightly 49, 32bit, ID 20160526082509
STR_1:
1. Open data:text/html,<html id="H" onclick="H.innerHTML='Hold Right key';setTimeout('alert()',3000)">
2. Open 3 new tabs after the tab opened in Step 1
3. Switch to the tab opened in Step 1, click on the page
4. Hold Right key


STR_2:
1. Open data:text/html,<html id="H" onclick="H.innerHTML='Hold Right key';setTimeout('alert()',3000)">
2. Open 3 new tabs after the tab opened in Step 1
3. Switch to the tab opened in Step 1, click on the page
4. In less than 3 seconds focus urlbar and hold Right key (it happens when I edit strin in urlbar)


STR_3 (real-life):
1. Open http://js1k.com/2014-dragons/demo/1891
2. Open 3 new tabs after the tab opened in Step 1
3. Switch to the tab opened in Step 1, click on the page
4. Hold Right button for 10 seconds


AR:  Browser switches selected tab (many tabs become selected in a fraction of a second)
ER:  Browser shouldn't select other tabs (including pending) as it may cause unwanted RAM consumption
No longer blocks: 1277113
Reproducible with Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:54.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/54.0
Not sure if this is intended or not.
Component: Untriaged → Tabbed Browser
Severity: normal → S3
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