Closed Bug 186075 Opened 22 years ago Closed 21 years ago

Keyboard shortcuts sometimes not working when window regains focus

Categories

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Product:
Firefox
Component:
General
Platform:
x86
All
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
major

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 212556

People

(Reporter: petecoolrulez, Assigned: bugzilla)

References

Details

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021207 Phoenix/0.5 Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021207 Phoenix/0.5 Sometimes pressing Ctrl-T does not open a new tab after returning focus to phoenix. I cannot reproduce this succesfully, but it happens somewhat often, about twice a day for me, and I browse using phoenix from 1 to 4 hours a day on average. Reproducible: Sometimes Steps to Reproduce: 1. Move to another window 2. Return to phoenix after some time 3. Press Ctrl-T to open a new tab, as many times as you want, it won't work 4. Do file/new tab to finally get the tab
When this happens, does shortcuts like Ctrl+V (paste) or Ctrl+C (copy) work?
They wouldn't have any effect since no area of the browser would be selected anyway... Next time it happens I'll make sure to note if only opening a menu, or the url list, (clicking on anything actually) brings back the Ctrl-T function
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021207 Phoenix/0.5 i also have the same experience, but would like to add that there is no keyboard input when the phoenix windo appears to be in focus but is really not (as far as allowing keyboard input). yes it is random and i have not been able to recreate the situations where phoenix does lose this keyboard input focus. the only thing that allows keyboard input after this behavior occurs is a mouse click anywhere within the phoenix window. thanks,,,,
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021207 Phoenix/0.5 I can verify this bug, but I cannot recreate it. It just happened to me again though, as it does every now and then, so I used the opportunity to try out other shortcuts. None is working. Not C-c to copy the text I happened to have highlighted in the browser window, nor did Alt+F/E/V/G/B/T/H work to open any menus. The highlighted text on the webpage I had open were colored as if the focus was in that window (not greyed out as it is when my URL or Google bar got the focus). Not sure if this provides any futher help, but here it is anyway. :)
I can confirm this too, and it has happened several times for me but I can't reproduce it either. :( Also, Shift+Arrow keys does not work either, or Ctrl+Home/End. Virtually any shortcut stops working. OS -> All Changing summary.
OS: Windows 2000 → All
Summary: Ctrl-T (new tab) sometimes not working when window regains focus → Keyboard shortcuts sometimes not working when window regains focus
-> major
Severity: normal → major
Blocks: 214206
When you guys hit this bug, does it also prevent typing into text fields? If yes, bug 214206 is a dup.
i haven't experienced this bug in a while, but i'll try to see if it still behaves badly. from what i remember, when the bug shows up firebird (well, it was phoenix at that time) would not accept/acknowledge any keyboard input upon window focus, it requires a mouse click anywhere within the window area - then it will accept keyboard input. text areas would not accept input until after a mouse click. you couln't even tab to the next link/drop-down/radio button/anything. it wasn't limited to just text fields, keyboard input just vanished until a mouse click in the window reactivated keyboard input. i'd almost recommend closing this bug as resolved-worksforme - is anyone still experiencing this bug with recent firebird builds?
It's been quite a while since I seen that too... Well over two months.
recommend marking this bug resolved - worksforme :)
I still see this bug from time to time. I also know that noririty has seen this lately. It's an old Mozilla bug and I'm sure it could be duplicated against on of the older bugs, but it's certainly there.
I never had this problem before, but now it happens quite often, so far not reproducible at all... Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.5a) Gecko/20030728 Mozilla Firebird/0.6.1 I use Firebird, and, usually after switching to another application, keyboard input stops working in the actual browsing window. I can't focus any form fields, I can't scroll using the cursor keys, just nothing. I can work around this bug by clicking into the URL field (where keys are still working), and then click into the browser window again.
I have had this problem for quite a while. I run Mozilla Firebird .6.1 fullscreened on a virtual desktop and when I am on another desktop and switch to the one with Firebird I am unable to get keyboard focus at all. Clicking does not help. In this state I can get focus on the location bar but nothing I type shows up. When this happens I can either switch to another desktop and back or de-fullscreen and click on another window and click back. This seems random as it doesn't always happen. I am running FreeBSD with fluxbox-devel (which I suspected was the problem before I found this bug report) and Mozilla Firebird 0.6.1, everything from ports.
I think this is a dup of bug 212556. There has only been one confirming comment on this bug since bug 212556 was fixed (08/11) and it referred to 0.6.1, which was released on or around 07/28.
Agreed, this one is a dupe of bug 212556. There's a test case in there that made the bug show up every time, and the latest nightly build fixed it.
What about comment 13?
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 212556 ***
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 21 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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