181812 - Mozilla retains text focus when switching to another app; particularly when hiding Mozilla.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 108653

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

Description

[David Billington]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021122
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021122

Frequently, in both the Browser and MailandNews, when switching to another
running application via the application menu, Mozilla retains the text focus. Ie
I can switch to word, illustrator, simpleText, anything and whilst mouse
movements and clicks go to the foreground app, Mozilla intercepts the
keystrokes. Often I want to edit a document and end up deleting mail by mistake.
This is reproducible and has been present from Mozilla 1.0 (at least) through to
the current build. It affects 9.0.4 through 9.2.2 but has not been tested on
earlier system releases.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open a browser window.
2. Click in the anywhere in the body.
3. Select application menu -> hide Mozilla.
4. Attempt to type anywhere in the newly fore-grounded app.
5. Return to Mozilla to see your typing.
6. Further switches using the Application menu return focus to the correct app.
7. Switching from Mozilla, then selecting "Hide Others" also behaves correctly.
Actual Results:  
If a textbox/URL bar/Mail pane/search pane had the focus the just-typed text now
appears there, or affects that area (ie mail is marked read/unread/deleted, etc).

Expected Results:  
On hiding Mozilla, it should have released text focus.

This has been tested on a number of different PowerMac G3s and iMacs (G3s). The
bug always occurs.

Comment 1

[Greg K.]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 108653 ***