138195 - Create New Tab, text focus does not follow

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 124750

(SeaMonkey :: Tabbed Browser, defect)

Description

[T. Charles Yun]

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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.9) Gecko/20020311
BuildID:    2002031104

To start, I type very quickly and potentially overuse shortcut keys...

So, the non-fatal bug that I have noticed:
- Use CTRL-T to open a new tabbed browser
- The cursor focus automatically jumps to the URL entry area
- Type in a URL, call it Tab1, and press enter
* IMMEDIATELY after you press enter, press CTRL-T to open a new tab, call it Tab2
- one would expect cursor focus to be in the URL area for Tab2, but...

- If Tab1 has javascript or something that autofocuses the cursor into a web
form, then your typing will occur in the background tab, not in the URL area for
Tab2.  (Google does this on their site) 

I did not think this was a big problem until I started typing in some
information for web hosted mail acct.  I loaded Google in the background, opened
a new tab, (note: i was not paying close attention) entered in the URL for the
web mail acct, and then entered in the user/pass... and noticed that my typing
was not showing up.  I did not notice that the text was being entered into the
background window until I closed the top (in Z order) tab.




Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
- Use CTRL-T to open a new tabbed browser
- The cursor focus automatically jumps to the URL entry area
- Type in a URL, for Tab1, and press enter
* IMMEDIATELY after you press enter, press CTRL-T to open a new tab, call it Tab2
- one would expect cursor focus to be in the URL area for Tab2, but...

- If Tab1 has javascript or something that autofocuses the cursor into a web
form, then your typing will occur in the background tab, not in the URL area for
Tab2.  (Google does this on their site) 


Actual Results:  Typed text was entered into the wrong tabbed browser (or, text
was entered into a tab that was not visible)

Expected Results:  All text entered by a user should show up in only the viewed
tab.  If cursor focus is grabbed by a page, it should be limited to that page.

If one waits a bit longer after entering a URL for Tab1, Moz will "lock up" and
not allow a new tab to be created until Tab1 is rendered.  This seems to solve
the problem.  

My assumption is that by entering the URL and creating a new tab immediately
after, I am somehow bypassing whatever safe-check system that is already in place.

Comment 1

[Jesse Ruderman]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 124750 ***

Comment 2

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

marking verified as a duplicate.

if you decide to reopen this bug, please clarify why.

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