158786 - Form loading in background tab steals focus from URL bar in foreground tab

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 124750

(SeaMonkey :: Tabbed Browser, defect)

Description

[Hanspeter Niederstrasser]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.1b) Gecko/20020722
BuildID:    1.1beta (2002072204)

When loading a tab in the background that has a form with autofocus, the form
steals the focus from the URL bar when the URL bar is active for the foreground tab.


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
To easily test, this requires a connection that is slow enough (56K shows bug)
to allow switching to the 2nd tab and typing a URL before the first tab is fully
loaded.

1. Open two empty tabs
2. On the first tab, go to a page that has a form with automatic focus onload.
http://mail.yahoo.com/ is a good example.
3. As soon as the page starts loading, move to the 2nd tab, click on the URL bar
and start typing any URL.

Actual Results:  When the 1st tab is fully loaded (in the background), the form
steals the keyboard focus. Anything typed into the URL bar in the foreground tab
is instead typed into the focused form field in the background tab.

Expected Results:  The form in the background tab should not steal focus from
the foreground tab.

Doing the same steps but in two separate windows does not steal the keyboard focus.

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

*** 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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