237697 - Autocomplete prevents alt-tab from switching applications

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 81912

(SeaMonkey :: Autocomplete, defect)

Description

[Scott Gifford]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7b) Gecko/20040229 Firefox/0.8
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7b) Gecko/20040229 Firefox/0.8

If Mozilla is in the middle of an autocomplete, ALT-TAB won't switch
applications.  In the urlbar, ALT-TAB selects one of the options; in an <INPUT>
field it first dismisses the autocomplete, then switches to the next window.


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Make sure you have some entries in your urlbar history, for autocompletion
2. Type in a partial URL in the urlbar, so that the autocomplete list comes up
3. Hit ALT-TAB

Actual Results:  
The first item in the autocomplete dropdown is selected.


Expected Results:  
Switched windows

This is especially annoying because it occurs if you delete part of a URL.  I
often edit the URL to change the parameters to a CGI script, and the natural
thing to do is delete the params from the list, alt-tab to another app to copy
the new params, then alt-tab back to paste them.  With this bug, when I delete
the params from the list, FF tries to autocomplete them back, so I can't ALT-TAB
away.

Comment 1

[R.K.Aa.]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 81912 ***