223749 - Submitting a POST form from within Messenger leaves focus on location bar when no Navigator windows open

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(SeaMonkey :: UI Design, defect)

Description

[Timwi]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007

Normally, when you follow and ordinary link in Messenger, and there are no
Navigator windows open, a new Navigator window opens, loads the page, and gives
focus to the page.

However, if you receive an HTML e-mail with a POST form in it, and submit that
while no Navigator windows are open, the new Navigator window will load the
page, but focus will not be given to the page but instead to the location bar.

(This is particularly annoying when you try to use "Find As You Type" after the
page has loaded, because instead you will type into the location bar.)

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

XP apps.  The focus/setting code in navigator.js and the way we load the browser
window on link clicks need help, apparently.  Here the window opens with
about:blank, then immediately loads a page.

Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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