Closed Bug 256177 Opened 20 years ago Closed 20 years ago

Auto-refresh tab "steals" focus from active tab (impossible to navigate using keyboard etc.) with a JavaScript function

Categories

(Firefox :: Tabbed Browser, defect)

Product:
Firefox
Component:
Tabbed Browser
Platform:
x86
Linux
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

()

Status:
VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 124750

People

(Reporter: mojbordel, Assigned: bugs)

Details

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040626 Firefox/0.9.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040626 Firefox/0.9.1

Intranet site. Page source snippet:
----- snip -----
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"><html>
	<head><title>CaseFaster - Open a case or a task</title>
	<link rel="icon" href="favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon">
	<link rel="shortcut icon" href="favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon">
<meta HTTP-EQUIV="Refresh" CONTENT="300; URL=casenumber.php">	</head>
	<body alink="#ff0000" vlink="#666699" link="#666699" bgcolor="#666699"
 onLoad="document.forms.SearchForm.id_number.focus()"	><a name="top"></a>
----- snip -----

When I'm in another tab (other than the auto-reload tab is active) that tab
loses focus - there is a search form on the auto-reload tab which gets the focus
IN THE BACKGROUND, so the active tab is still visible, but it stops responding
to the keyboard. After clicking into it starts responding again. Sometimes
though the Firefox loses keyboard focus totally so it's impossible to enter
anything into the URL bar, search bar or any text or textarea fields in a page
(browser restart helps). Sometimes though it's possible to write in a textarea
field but not to move around using the cursor keys (arrows). You have to click
the mouse to go one line up for example.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open the auto-reload page.
2. Open a new tab. Read it move around with the keyboard etc. Wait for the
refresh of the background tab.


Actual Results:  
The active tab lost the keyboard focus.

Expected Results:  
Not to lose keyboard focus on the active tab.

Fedora Core 1 Linux:
$uname -a
Linux localhost 2.4.22-1.2188.nptl #1 Wed Apr 21 20:36:05 EDT 2004 i686 i686
i386 GNU/Linux
Enlightenment 0.16.6

Default theme

Extensions: 
Adblock v.5 d2 * nightly 39
DOM Inspector 1.0
Live HTTPHeaders 0.9
Tabbrowser Extensions 1.10.2004071201
Mozex 1.07
Show Old Extensions 0.1.3
I forgot to include the search form:

----- snip -----
</table></td></tr>
	<form name="SearchForm" method="post" action="open-smthg.php">
	<tr><td colspan=2 align="left" bgcolor="#ccccff"><b>User logged in as <i>Marek
SCHIMARA</i></b></td>
	<td colspan=3 align="right" bgcolor="#ccccff"><b>Search for: </b><input
value="" maxlength="15" size="30" name="id_number" type="text"><input value="Ok"
name="bouton" type="submit"></td>

	</tr>
	</form>
	</table>
----- snip -----

Another thing is, if you searched before using this form, the search history
will appear on the active tab which lost the keyboard focus at the same position
as on the auto-reload tab (if you try to move the page up or down using the
arrow keys).


Marek

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 124750 ***
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 20 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
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