179808 - Cursor focus should be the URL bar when a page loads.

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

(Camino Graveyard :: Location Bar & Autocomplete, defect)

Description

[Carlo]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20021112 Chimera/0.6+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20021112 Chimera/0.6+

Cursor focus should be the URL bar when a page loads (even when empty) so that
one can immediatly type an URL. Or, when pressing the "tab" key, the URL line
should be selected. Seems easy to fix ;-) and a real time saver.... 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open new page
2. Type URL
3.

Actual Results:  
Nothing

Expected Results:  
URL being typed should appear in URL bar

Comment 1

[Mike Pinkerton (not reading bugmail)]

this is a dupe.

Comment 2

[Greg K.]

Invalid. When a page loads, focus is given to the content area intentionally.
Focus is only given to the URL field in a new *blank* window or tab.

Comment 3

[Carlo]

I still consider it a nuisance/bug, because the objective is to be able to type
a new URL fast without using the mouse to click on the location bar. At least
pressing the TAB key should cycle through all the clickable areas of a page
INCLUDING the location bar. Maybe "Shift Tab" should always put the focus on the
location bar ?

Comment 4

[Stephane Moureau]

Carlo, use Cmd-L it will put the focus in the Location bar and show the location
bar in a sheet if the toolbar is not visible. So Cmd-L always put the focus in it.

Comment 5

[Greg K.]

Carlo, that's another bug. Search Bugzilla for it. This is Invalid.

Comment 6

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

agreed, v.