258924 - When several windows or tabs are open, they share the same input language selection (Windows IME) instead of each one having its own.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 186549

(Core Graveyard :: GFX: Win32, defect)

Description

[Stanislav Vitebskiy]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040803 Firefox/0.9.3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040803 Firefox/0.9.3

The expected behavior for different browser windows is to have "personal" input
language setting for each top-level window (Microsoft IE, and most other
applications behave this way).
However, all Firefox windows share the same setting. Switch input language (for
instance from Engish to Japanese) in one window will also switch it in the others.
This behavior creates a lot of confusion when there is a need to work in
different languages in different browser windows.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Start seral instance of Firefox
2. In each windows, open a page with a form (E.g., http://www.google.com/)
3. While one of the window is active, switch to a different input language
4. Activate one of the other windows

Actual Results:  
All the Firefox windows switch the input language to watever is last selected in
any of Firefox windows.

Expected Results:  
The Firefox windows in which the input language was not explicitly switched
(ex., by LShif+Alt) should still retain their initial input language


OS: Windows 98 SE
Available Input Languages: English (Default), Russian, Japanese

Comment 1

[timeless]

can you do what you want with netscape 4?

Comment 2

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

> for each top-level window 

For each top-level window, or for each program instance?  If you open new IE
windows using IE's file menu instead of the desktop or toolbar IE icons, how
does IE behave?

Comment 3

[Stanislav Vitebskiy]

(In reply to comment #2)
The New Window in IE seems to behave in a similar way to a new instance of IE
(started by running iexplore.exe, for example) as far as input language
selection is conserned. That is, it has a separate input language setting from
the original window (in which New Window command was issued). Right-clicking on
a link and selecting Open In New Window has the same behavior. Also, every new
IE window is opened with the default input language selected.
In Firefox installation I am running (0.9.3), all the Firefox windows, no matter
how they where created, share the same input language setting.

P.S. To test this behavior, multiple input languages must be enabled in Conrol
Panel/Keyboard (Languages tab).

I hope this info is of some help to you.

Comment 4

[Masayuki Nakano [:masayuki] (he/him)(JST, +0900)(sickish, maybe slower respose)]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 186549 ***