262387 - "Find as you type" steals focus from plugins' input fields

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Toolkit :: Find Toolbar, defect, P1)

Description

[shawn]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040928 Firefox/0.10
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040928 Firefox/0.10

When filling in inputs in Flash movies, Find as you Type tries to find on the
page whatever I type.

For example: if you Go to http://www.macromedia.com/ and try to use the Flash
interface for the searchbox in the upper-right corner, it will input the first
letter and then Find as you Type takes over.

Note: I have accessibility.typeaheadfind.linksonly set to false. Not sure if
this influences the bug at all.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to http://www.macromedia.com/
2. Click into the search box in the Flash movie
3. Start typing something

Actual Results:  
Find as you Type searches the page as if I had clicked on the page's HTML
content instead of into a Flash movie.

Expected Results:  
Treated the Flash movie essentially like a form's input, ignoring the urge to
bring up Find as you Type as long as the movie has the focus.

I can also reproduce the bug by following the same steps in Mozilla 1.8a4, but
not in 1.8a1 or earlier. Definitely never had this issue prior to the new Type
as you Find functionality (ie. the bar at the bottom of the screen).

Comment 1

[posita]

I can confirm this happens using Firefox 1.0PR on OS X 10.3.5.

This is especially interesting when one tried to type one's zip code in the CNN
local election results flash app (on the right side):

    http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2004/pages/results/president/

Comment 2

[Hiro]

WFM
Mac OS X 10.3.5
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.4) Gecko/20041011
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; ja-JP; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041103
Firefox/1.0RC2

But, it reproduced by Camino of trunk build.
2004110311 (v0.8+)

Comment 3

[Asaf Romano (gone)]

*** Bug 268018 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

*** Bug 260044 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 5

[Asaf Romano (gone)]

Attachment: patch

Comment 6

[Asaf Romano (gone)]

trunk: mozilla/toolkit/components/typeaheadfind/content/findBar.js 1.42

Comment 7

[Asaf Romano (gone)]

1.8 branch: mozilla/toolkit/components/typeaheadfind/content/findBar.js 1.21.2.18