225080 - page keyboard focus resume off by 1 after hotkey navigation to toolbar or sidebar and back

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Jeffrey T. Smith]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007 Firebird/0.7
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007 Firebird/0.7

When the keyboard focus is removed from the page to some toolbar or sidebar, the
in-page focus location is remembered.  However, when focus is returned to the
page by tab-keying back, the in-page focused element jumps to the element
immediately following the element that had the focus.  A Shift-Tab obviously
fixes this, but it's still a nuiscance.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Tab around a page until the keyboard focus is visible and in the middle.
2. Ctrl-L, Ctrl-K, or Ctrl-H to move keyboard focus out of the page pane.
3. Tab out of the taskbar/sidebar to the page (whole page focus), then once more
to resume previous in-page focus.

Actual Results:  
Keyboard focus goes to element immediately after element that previously held focus.

Expected Results:  
Keyboard focus returns to the element that had the focus.

Comment 1

[Jesse Ruderman]

Your experience doesn't match mine.  When I Ctrl+L and tab twice, I end up at
the first element on the page, regardless of what had focus before I hit Ctrl+L.

Comment 2

[Jeffrey T. Smith]

Attachment: In-page keyboard focus (on 'Show List' link)

Comment 3

[Jeffrey T. Smith]

Attachment: Toolbar keyboard focus (in search box)

Comment 4

[Jeffrey T. Smith]

Attachment: In-page keyboard focus (whole page)

Comment 5

[Jeffrey T. Smith]

Attachment: In-page keyboard focus (on next link)

Comment 6

[Jeffrey T. Smith]

I've tested this on 3 installations of Firebird 0.7, on Windows XP and 2000, and
found the same results on each.  Note that if you Ctrl-L (with no sidebar open),
you will have to tab thrice, not twice, to resume into the page.  See the third
screenshot for the keyboard focus (and corresponding dashed box) going to the
entire page.  I have not seen a Firebird build in a while that did not have this
feature, albeit slightly broken.

Comment 7

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

Tab order worksforme with 20040425 Firefox on winXP