196648 - 2 forms opened successively | mouse focus lost if javascript in second tab also calls mouse focus event into form field of second form

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 196646

(Core :: DOM: Events, defect)

Description

[manohar]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20030210
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20030210

1:) open mail.yahoo.com in one tab.
2:) type in a username
3:) open mail.yahoo.com in second tab.
by the time the second tab loads, mouse focus shifts to username field of the
second tab page, also the username you are typing will be entered in the
second-tab form-field. 
problem particularly troublesome when password being entered, is displayed in
the clear-text field of second-tab-page.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1:) open mail.yahoo.com in one tab.
2:) type in a username
3:) open mail.yahoo.com in second tab.
by the time the second tab loads, mouse focus shifts to username field of the
second tab page, also the username you are typing will be entered in the
second-tab form-field. 
problem particularly troublesome when password being entered, is displayed in
the clear-text field of second-tab-page.
Actual Results:  
by the time the second tab loads, mouse focus shifts to username field of the
second tab page, also the username you are typing will be entered in the
second-tab form-field. 
problem particularly troublesome when password being entered, is displayed in
the clear-text field of second-tab-page.

Expected Results:  
mousefocus should be retained by page being loaded first.

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 196646 ***