263009 - Focus for keyboard paging not set to active frame

Status: NEW

(Firefox :: General, enhancement)

Description

[Thomas Wolff]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10

When a frame is loaded with new contents in a frameset (e.g. clicked 
from a navigation frame in that frameset), the focus should be set 
to it for paging; but Page Up/Down and Space keys do not work for 
paging until the mouse is clicked into the frame.

Maybe this is a feature request rather than a bug report but I think 
it is so obvious that this is the desired behaviour that I consider it 
a major user interface issue. Of course there are ambiguous cases when 
multiple frames are loaded but when and where I can scroll a frame with 
the mouse wheel I certainly expect keyboard paging to work as well.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Load a frameset with navigation frame (e.g. http://towo.net/mined/)
2. Move mouse over main frame, scroll wheel: works, press PageDown: nothing
3. Click other frame from navigation area
4. Move mouse over main frame, scroll wheel: works, press PageDown: nothing
Actual Results:  
keyboard control does not work

Expected Results:  
should work

searched bugs database for "focus", "focus active", "focus click", 
"no focus", "not focussed" - sorry if there is a duplicate that I didn't 
see in the long result lists

Comment 1

[Peter van der Woude [:Peter6]]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041006
Firefox/0.10

click in the frame followed by arrow down 

WFM

Comment 2

[Thomas Wolff]

> click in the frame followed by arrow down
That's just what I complained about - that you have to click 
before the keys work. I think that's not intuitive after you've 
just loaded something into the frame and the usability should 
be improved here.

Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 4

[Thomas Wolff]

I'm refreshing the request for improving the user experience as described.

Comment 5

[Samuel Sidler (old account; do not CC)]

Confirming as a valid RFE. I don't think this is UI we want though.