230822 - URL bar text auto-selected when switching from browser and back

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 90587

(Core :: DOM: UI Events & Focus Handling, defect)

Description

[Eyal Rozenberg]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7a) Gecko/20040101
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7a) Gecko/20040101

If you're anywhere in the URL bar, with some text or no text selected, and
switch away from the Mozilla window and back to the Mozilla window (not
necessarily immediately), the state of the selection of the text in the URL bar
reverts to everything being selected; the cursor position is also lost.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[[e-mail]]

So, we're getting focus events switching windows. Is this reasonable?

Comment 2

[Prognathous]

For the record, IE6 does the same. I do think, however, that this is a valid
bug, especially for anyone who appreciates a spatially oriented interface.

An interesting and relevant article:
http://www.arstechnica.com/paedia/f/finder/finder-2.html#spatial

Prog.

Comment 3

[[e-mail]]

Well, you could always turn off the browser.urlbar.click preferences...

Comment 4

[Eyal Rozenberg]

Those preferences should have no bearing on the behavior of the selection when
switching from and back to the browser. At least in my opinion. Thee's no URL
bar click happening when switching back.

Comment 5

[[e-mail]]

The JS has no way to tell what caused a focus event, it could be tabbed to,
ctrl+l, alt+d, clicked or focus lost and gained via the window manager...

Comment 6

[Eyal Rozenberg]

Great, so now we know what needs to be fixed...

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