212819 - clicking on a link should not forget position in tab cycle, when I go back the widget that I clicked on should have the focus

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 36539

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[Suraj Acharya]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624

The first time someone hits Tab on the page the first item in the tab cycle gets
selected. This is usually some widget at the top of the page. I can tab to the
link I want and then hit Enter to load the link. Now if I go back to the
previous page and hit Tab the first item in the tab cycle of the page again gets
focus.

It would be nice if the browser remembered which item in the tab cycle last had
focus when a new page was loaded, and gave this item focus when going back to
this page. This seeems to be the behaviour in IE and is very useful for
mouseless browsing.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to www.mozilla.org
2. Hit Tab twice and then Enter.
3. Now go back (Go->Back)


Actual Results:  
No widget seems to have the focus now. If you hit Tab again then the first item
on the tab cycle gets the focus.

Expected Results:  
After going back either the widget that hit enter on should have the focus (IE
does this) or at least this widget should have the focus after hitting Tab the
first time.

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 36539 ***