177030 - When loading a url in a new tab, tabbed browser keyboards shortcuts (Ctrl+W, Ctrl+PgUp, etc) do not work before loading is completed

Status: VERIFIED WORKSFORME

(SeaMonkey :: Tabbed Browser, defect)

Description

[rasta m0n]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (OS/2; U; Warp 4.5; en-US; rv:1.2a) Gecko/20020912
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (OS/2; U; Warp 4.5; en-US; rv:1.2a) Gecko/20020912

ctrl-w used to close tabs any time, but with newer builds (including the latest)
ctrl-w will only close the tab after the url has loaded.  middle-clicking on a
tab has no problem, though.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.load a url
2.create a new tab
3.load another url that takes a few seconds, and try to use ctrl-w

Actual Results:  
tab wont close until url has completely loaded

Expected Results:  
tab closes right away like in the first 1.2 (and prior) builds

p.s. the old mozilla build I'm using now works ok with ctrl-w, so ignore the
build identifier above.  I use ctrl-w a lot so newer mozilla builds are useless
to me.

Comment 1

[Daniel Wang]

Confirming moz 2002103110 win98

When you loads a url in a new tab either via context menu or middle
click, no tabbed browser keyboard shortcuts will work (Ctrl+W, Ctrl+Tab,
etc.) Other keyboard shortcuts like Ctrl+O work as expected.

The bug does no appear if you create a new tab and then load a url in it

Comment 2

[u60234]

*** Bug 183130 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3

[Nick Johnston]

I don't think it has been mentioned, but CTRL+T sometimes doesn't work while a
tab is loading either. I think this only applies to the data transfer stage, not
the rendering stage. I'm using Moz 1.2 final.

Comment 4

[Philip Nemec]

A different method to reproduce:

* load a url one one tab, load another url in another tab
* start loading a slow link
* hit Ctrl-PgDn (while loading)

What happens:
* nothing

What should happen:
* switch to other tab

Once the page is loaded then Ctrl-PgDn works fine

Comment 5

[u27431]

Failure to interact while a page is loading sounds like bug 76495.  Is this
really specific to tabs?

Comment 6

[Martin Vollrathson]

No, this bug is almost certainly a duplicate of bug 76495 and should be marked
as such.

Comment 7

[Daniel Wang]

for the sack of sanity, set this bug to depend on bug 76495 so that people can
find this bug.

Comment 8

[rasta m0n]

bug 76495 was created in 2001, yet this bug started happening around ~9/2002,
hmm... 

Comment 9

[Emiel]

If the url that is loaded does not exist, the Tab can not be closed using Ctr+W.
An empty Tab page remains, until you use File > Close Tab from the menu.

Comment 10

[Daniel Wang]

*** Bug 208242 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 11

[Daniel Wang]

what's the diff between this bug and bug 110718?

Comment 12

[Tom 7]

I'm pretty sure this is a dup with bug 192729, which has a patch and
superreview+ (I can't wait...!). Just like that bug, clicking in the loading tab
to focus it reenables keyboard shortcuts.

Comment 13

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

->default contacts

Comment 14

[Simon Males]

Erm, bug 205179 looks like a dup of this one. 

Comment 15

[Sam Little]

By the way, this seems to be more or less fixed for me since 1.5something. If
the tab is empty, Ctrl-PgDn/PgUp has to be hit *twice* to move (in rapid
succession, sometimes once will do).

Time to look at bugs I've opened again and mark the ones I see fixed....

Comment 16

[Daniel Wang]

*** Bug 205179 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 17

[Jesse Ruderman]

*** Bug 230907 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 18

[Jesse Ruderman]

WFM Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7a) Gecko/20040125 with
Ctrl+W and Ctrl+Tab.

There's a Firebird-specific problem with Ctrl+Tab (but not other shortcuts): bug
227887.

Comment 19

[Jesse Ruderman]

I think this bug was fixed by the patch in bug 192729.