219034 - [Tabs/Focus] There is only one focus for all tabs in a given window

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 124750

(SeaMonkey :: Tabbed Browser, defect)

Description

[Josh Grams]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux ppc; en-US; rv:1.5b) Gecko/20030911 Firebird/0.6.1+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux ppc; en-US; rv:1.5b) Gecko/20030911 Firebird/0.6.1+

focus() in a lowered tab steals focus from the raised tab.  (and doesn't raise
the tab to which focus has gone).

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open a slow-loading page that onLoad focus()es some form field (say
http://www.m-w.com/)
2. Before that page finishes loading, create a new tab and start typing another URL.
Actual Results:  
When the first page finishes loading, focus "disappears" (goes back to the other
tab, which isn't raised).

Expected Results:  
Preferably, focus should be maintained separately for separate tabs, as it is
for separate windows. (i.e. this doesn't happen if you open a new window rather
than a new tab in step 2).

Specifically, focus for the front tab should not be changed (so you can finish
typing the URL or whatever else you're doing), but when you go the other tab,
focus should be on the onLoad focus()ed form field.

This is a minor problem, but seems symptomatic of a general
not-treating-tabs-as-completely-separate-windows thing.  As such, I don't expect
this will get fixed soon (if ever), but it's something to consider...

Note: The other major symptom which I think may be somewhat related is that the
location bar isn't treated separately for different tabs.  If you open a new
tab, start typing a URL, then switch to another tab before you hit Return, when
you come back, the location bar again says about:blank.

Comment 1

[Bob Firth]

This is a browser bug to do with tabbed browsing (not a firebird specific bug).
But it's a duplicate anyway.

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