189176 - Address bar should have initial focus when no home page specified.

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(SeaMonkey :: Location Bar, defect)

Description

[niall]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021130
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021130


By default I have a blank home page (i.e., under Preferences -> Navigator ->
Home Page I leave the textbox empty).  When I start the browser the focus seems
to be on the blank page (I presume this is because of type ahead find) however
as no page is loaded the focus should be on the address bar.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Clear home page
2. Restart browser


Actual Results:  
The focus is not on the address bar.

Expected Results:  
Put the focus on the address bar.

Comment 1

[R.K.Aa.]

WFM, current trunk CVS, Linux. (Preferences set up to display a "blank page" on
startup.)

Comment 2

[R.K.Aa.]

Can reproduce if i set a homepage, reload mozilla, and then delete the homepage
URL only. (And restart again)  Focus is then on the now empty page.

Reducing severity.

Comment 3

[niall]

Can we have the severity set to minor/normal?   As someone who stops/starts
their browser regularly this irks me =)

Comment 4

[R.K.Aa.]

Just set the pref to load a blank page (instead of an "empty url"), and it
should works like you want it to.

Comment 5

[niall]

I presume you mean type "about:blank" as the URL -- there is no radio option to
specify a blank page so this is effectively undocumented behaviour.

Comment 6

[R.K.Aa.]

Can you attach a screenshot of the preferences->navigator tab?

Comment 7

[niall]

Ah - it is there after all! Sorry, don't know how I missed it!

Comment 8

[Patrick]

per reporter's own comment 7