248910 - Two mouse clicks required to leave drop down list with Field focus colors enabled

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 281551

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

Description

[Brendan Lovett]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0) Opera 7.51  [en]
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040616

Enabling focus colours in prefs.js results in two mouse clicks to change focus 
from a drop down list. If a drop down list currently has focus and a another 
dropdown menu is selected, it takes three mouse clicks to display the list from 
the drop down. No ther form components seem to require extra mouse clicks to 
leave. 

While the dropdown has focus, no other applications can get keyboard focus - 
even when click on an external window. Enabling focus colours also results in 
slow form navigation as fields are higlighted.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Edit prefs.js and add the following lines:

user_pref("browser.display.focus_background_color", "#ffffcc");
user_pref("browser.display.focus_text_color", "#ff0000");
user_pref("browser.display.use_focus_colors", true);

2. Start mozilla and test on a web page with multiple drop down lists
3. Use the mouse to set focus on a list and note the number of mouse clicks 
required to change focus to another component on the same web page like a text 
input field.
4. Highlight a dropdown list and then click the mouse in an xterm window. Now 
try entering text at the xterm. Note no text can be entered.
Actual Results:  
2 mouse clicks are required to transfer keyboard focus away from a drop down 
list.
Keyboard focus remains with the browser when a drop down list has focus.

Expected Results:  
1 mouse click required to transfer keyboard focus away from a drop down list.
Keyboard focus can be transfered to other applications when a drop down list has 
focus, by clicking on the other applications.

Comment 1

[Jesiah S]

I see this on LInux 2004082306  The problem is that it applys *:focus.  This has
caused other problems see bug 163503 and bug 149981. This probably be related to
bug 154670.
You don't have to set these preferences to see this.  You can use a HTML file
also.  See attachment 96893 [details] from bug 149981

Comment 2

[Adam Guthrie]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 281551 ***