167655 - test boxes don't respond when I create new tab

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core :: Layout: Form Controls, defect)

Description

[fREW k Panisc]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2a) Gecko/20020909
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2a) Gecko/20020909

If I am trying to type into a text box and I have just created a new tab (ctrl
+t or middleclick) the text box will no longer respond until I take mozilla out
of focus, use another app, and then go back to mozilla, so if I was using
mozilla and this happened I could open another program and then go back to
mozilla and I can use the textbox again.  This has been a problem for a LONG
time.  it also happens in the URL bar.

Reproducible: Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
1.go to google
2.open another tab
3.try to type into google's textbox

Actual Results:  
I can't fill in any values

Expected Results:  
I should be able to fill in values

Comment 1

[Andrés G. Aragoneses]

WFM on Gecko/2002121215 (WinXP).

Comment 2

[John Keiser (jkeiser)]

Frew, 1.2a is pretty old, would you mind trying this on a more recent build?

Comment 3

[Kenneth Herron]

Linux gtk2 build ID 20030214. After fiddling around with google's home page I
can't really reproduce this.

Tabs are opened either by middle-clicking on a link or hitting ctrl-t. Both of
these will by design take focus away from the text field, but bring the google
tab to the front and clicking in the text field always let me type there again.

Frew, can you reproduce this with a current version of mozilla? Can you describe
your setup a bit--for example, what window manager do you use, and what's your
window focus policy? Is it focus-follows-mouse, click in a window to focus? Can
you provide more detailed instructions on reproducing this?

Comment 4

[Kenneth Herron]

Frew, is this still an issue? Would you respond to the questions in the previous
comments?

Comment 5

[Mikael Parknert]

WFM in Mozilla 1.4rc3 W2K
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Reporter, if you see this problem in a recent build of Mozilla, feel free
to return and reopen the bug.

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