210367 - When going to a webpage with forms and creating a new tab, it sometimes loses focus on the address bar and gains focus in the previous tab (form)

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 124750

(SeaMonkey :: Tabbed Browser, defect)

Description

[kamikaze]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030612
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030612

When visiting communitys or any page with forms (logins and such), if you type
the url, and then create a new tab quickly and start entering the new url it
looses focus and the text entered comes to the previous tabs form. Possibly
because some pages uses javascript to get focus to the login form and that
script loads after the tab is created?

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to a url with forms
2. Quickly create a new tab and start writing new url

sometimes it only appears when you open two or more in a row..

Actual Results:  
Entered text goes into form in previous tab, but the focus remains in the new tab

Expected Results:  
Not loose focus on the new url

Comment 1

[Serge Gautherie (:sgautherie)]

See bug 210401 comment 1 for possible duplicate...

Comment 2

[Phillip Stewart :P]

If the background tab is using focus(), then this is a dupe of bug 124750.

Comment 3

[Jon Henry]

I've been encountering this too, and always on websites that use input.focus().
I'm going to mark this a dupe of bug 124750, but please reopen if anyone can
find a counterexample.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 124750 ***