189703 - keyboard shortcut ctrl-TAB doesn't work if current tab is blank (new) tab

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 112337

(SeaMonkey :: Tabbed Browser, defect)

Description

[Aaron Green, MD]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20030119
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20030119

if you are control-TABbing through existing tabs, when you hit a new blank tab
that hasn't had a page loaded in it, ctrl-TAB no longer works, so you can't move
to the next tab. Apparently keyboard focus is put somewhere that doesn't accept
control tab, as if you click with the mouse in the window, ctrl-tab works again.

[[Something similar happens at times when I bring Mozilla to the front by
Alt-TAB: doesn't respond to keyboard shortcuts unless I click in the window
first...]]

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. have pages open in tabs
2. open new tab without any content loaded in it (if one isn't already open)
3. from a page with content, repeatedly press ctrl-TAB to cycle through tabs
4. observe you can't ctrl-TAB out of the empty tab

Actual Results:  
you can't ctrl-TAB out of the empty tab without first clicking in the empty
document area

Expected Results:  
still responded to ctrl-TAB without user having to click in empty document area

Comment 1

[Gilles Durys]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 112337 ***

Comment 2

[Daniel Wang]

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