172877 - using the microsoft intellitype 'mail' key on microsoft natural/internet keyboards fails to load the mail window

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 64371

(Core :: DOM: UI Events & Focus Handling, defect)

Description

[squozen]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.2a) Gecko/20020910
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.2a) Gecko/20020910

There seems to be an issue between Mozilla 1.2a and Microsoft's Intellitype
driver.  If the Intellitype control panel is set to load Mozilla Mail when the
Mail button on the Microsoft Natural keyboard is pressed, the Mail window does
not appear - the current window loses focus and pressing Ctrl-2, selecting Mail
& Newsgroups from the menus, etc, will not work.  You must quit Mozilla entirely
and start again.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Set Microsoft's Intellitype driver to load Mozilla Mail when you press the
'Mail' button on a Microsoft keyboard.
2. Load a Mozilla browser window.
3. Press the Mail button on the keyboard.

Actual Results:  
The Mail & Newsgroups window fails to open, and in fact will not open regardless
of what the user does until they open the task manager and force a quit.

Expected Results:  
Open the Mail & Newsgroups window.  This works on every version of Mozilla up
until 1.2a.

Comment 1

[Frank Wein [:mcsmurf]]

Short Question: Does the software for this keyboard send keys to the software
(Ctrl+2) or does it start Mail mozilla.exe -mail this way?

Comment 2

[Andrew Hagen]

dupe

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 64371 ***

Comment 3

[Trix Supremo]

verifying dupe