202937 - Maintain item selection (focus)

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 120148

(Firefox :: General, enhancement)

Description

[Roman R.]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4a) Gecko/20030411 Phoenix/0.5+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4a) Gecko/20030411 Phoenix/0.5+

Firebird currently allows to navigate page elements via keyboard. It draws a
rubber band rectangle around items that have focus. 

Problems:
1. This rubber band is lost (even though, the focus remains) when a user selects
a different tab and then comes back. The band shouldn't get lost in this case.
2. When a user follows a link and comes back, the item with the focus (link the
user followed) loses the focus. This makes navigation with keyboard inconvenient.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[Jesse Ruderman]

This is actually two bugs.

1. Bug 120148, "Tabs don't remember which element [frame, textfield, etc] was
focused when switching tabs".  Found by searching for 'focus tabb'.

2. Bug 36539, "Saving focused element in session history".  Found by searching
for 'focus session history'.  (If you didn't know the term "session history",
'ALL focus back forward' would have worked by finding some duplicates.)

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 120148 ***

Comment 2

[noririty]

v.