192915 - New blank window from starting a 2nd mozilla.exe has no focus

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(SeaMonkey :: Location Bar, defect)

Description

[Robert Pollak]

With a blank page as default for new windows, and quicklaunch disabled, i see
the same thing in 1.2.1/win2k that Jim Garrison describes in
<http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=139862#c27>.

Jim said:
<quote>
Possible regression in 1.2.1:

In prior versions, starting a new window by executing mozilla.exe with no
options (i.e. from a desktop shortcut) would behave like opening a new
window with Ctrl-N and place focus in the URLbar.

In 1.2.1, Ctrl-N continues to put the focus in the correct place, but
starting from mozilla.exe doesn't put the focus anywhere.  It's not
in the URLbar and the URLbar can't be reached by tabbing.  It's almost as
if there is NO keyboard focus at all until the mouse is clicked in the
URLbar.
</quote>

This is not the same as bug 139862, because here the expected behavior is clear:
 the focus thould be in the URLbar. 139862 is a discussion whether the URLbar
should get focus even in new windows with default content.
I observed that the URLbar is focused correctly after switching to another
program window and back to mozilla.
I remember not seeing the bug all the time during the last weeks, but i have not
found out the necessary conditions yet.

Comment 1

[Jim Garrison]

Still present in 1.3b (2003021008)

Comment 2

[bully7198]

Still present in 1.3 (20030312)

Comment 3

[Tobias Sager]

The problem is the same with Quicklaunch enabled.

What about bug http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=153693 ?

Comment 4

[Tarmo Järvalt]

WFM

WinXP, rv:1.4a, Gecko/20030404

Comment 5

[Tobias Sager]

I cannot confirm this here. It does still not work under W2kSP3 with 1.4a.

Tarmo: Did you remove the focus from the first Mozilla-Window before opening
another?

Comment 6

[Tarmo Järvalt]

Tried all kinds of combinations, first Mozilla window minimized, maximized,
restored, with focus and without, with taskbar having focus, with some other
program having focus, starting mozilla.exe from explorer.exe, from far.exe, with
winkey.exe, with -nosplash and without...

Just works now, it had this focus problems on ~1.3 builds.

BTW bug 159908 is mysteriously fixed too with this 1.4a build, someone did
something right ;)

WinXP SP1, rv:1.4a, Gecko/20030404

Comment 7

[Andrew Schultz]

Is anyone still seeing this with a recent build?

http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/seamonkey/nightly/contrib/latest-mozilla1.8/

Comment 8

[Robert Pollak]

I have not used the Seamonkey Suite for a while, so I cannot test this any more.
(In Ubuntu's Firefox 1.5.0.7 this works fine, btw.)

Comment 9

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

WFM