200381 - Location bar click has delay before selecting text

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Core :: DOM: UI Events & Focus Handling, defect)

Description

[David Henderson]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.2b) Gecko/20021016
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.2b) Gecko/20021016

When the computer is running slowly, clicking in the location bar and typing
turns odd.  If I click in the location bar and immediately begin typing, the
first several characters appear in the location bar at the place I clicked, then
the entire location bar is highlighted and the next character I type replaces
what I've typed so far.

Reproducible: Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Get the machine running slowly.  Examples may be running a lot of programs so
the computer runs low on memory and has to swap, or performing a disk-intensive
operation in another program.
2. Click location bar and immediately begin typing, not waiting for the location
to highlight.
Actual Results:  
If I'm viewing "http://www.mozilla.org/" and I click in the location bar around
the "z" and start typing "http://www.cnn.com/", I might get up to
"http://www.mozhttilla.org/" for a moment, then the entire URL is highlighted
and I end up with "p://www.cnn.com/" when I'm finished typing.  (The number of
characters I can type before it highlights varies.)

If machine is very, very slow, I can type the entire URL and press enter before
the location bar has a chance to highlight the URL.  In this case, I may end up
requesting "http://www.mozhttp://www.cnn.com/illa.org/".

Expected Results:  
The click in the location bar should have caused the URL to be selected first,
before processing any keystroke events which would replace the selection.

Using the "Modern" theme.  Don't know if the same happens in other themes.

Comment 1

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This bug has been automatically resolved after a period of inactivity (see above
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