201186 - After viewing a PDF in Acrobat, Moz key shortcuts don't work

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 78414

(Core Graveyard :: Plug-ins, defect)

Description

[Uri Dor]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4a) Gecko/20030401
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4a) Gecko/20030401

I view a PDF using Adobe Acrobat, and then I can't access any of Mozilla's
functionality from the keyboard. This stays until I use the mouse to click on a
menu or the search edit box.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. open a page with a PDF (e.g.
http://web.onetel.net.uk/~anthony_w/cplusplus/intrototemplates.pdf)
2. try hitting F9, Alt+F and such
3. click in an empty place in Mozilla (next to the tabs, next to the personal
toolbar, etc.) and try again
4. click on a Moz menu and try again

Actual Results:  
up to step 4 the keys go to Acrobat, not Mozilla

Expected Results:  
step 3 should have released the keyboard to Mozilla, and maybe some special
shortcut should have switched keyboard focus to Mozilla as well (?)

Comment 1

[bmartin]

Reproducible.

It appears that any .pdf file loaded into a browser window, will take focus away
from the browser. Acrobat Reader has it's own set of keyboard shortcuts.

I have found the following after loading a .pdf file within the browser:

- The .pdf file takes focus away from Mozilla
- Mozilla keyboard shortcuts and context menus are enabled after user clicks in
Mozilla's URL Location field.
- If .pdf is in focus, and user then clicks in the empty space within the
Acrobat specific toolbar, Mozilla context menus are accessible via Alt key, but
Function keys (F9, etc) and Ctrl+ keys are not enabled.

I'm researching this to find out if an Acrobat toggle key exists for users to
alternate focus between Mozilla and Acrobat Reader.

Comment 2

[lmcquarr]

"I'm researching this to find out if an Acrobat toggle key exists for users to
alternate focus between Mozilla and Acrobat Reader."

No ... 

There is some special focus code in our netscape plug-in for accessibility.
It sounds like it is messing things up.  I will ask our QE to investigate
and enter a bug against Acrobat if that is the case. Unfortunately, 
the fix probably won't make Acrobat 6.0 (announced today), but I will
fix any issue for whatever dot release follows.

Comment 3

[Torben]

Also related bug 93149 and bug 181177.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 78414 ***

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 78414 ***

Comment 4

[bmartin]

Marking Verified Duplicate

Please make comments related to Acrobat Reader in Bugzilla 78414