267561 - hotkey and other keyboard input unacknowledged or improperly received

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 283050

(Firefox :: Shell Integration, defect)

Description

[Patrick Walsh]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041001 Firefox/0.10.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041001 Firefox/0.10.1

Firefox used to work great under OS X.  Since version 0.9 it's been screwy. 
There are several problems.  Here's an example: When I click a link in an e-mail
and it launches a new firefox window, that window comes to the foreground. 
However, if I try to click on a input control on a form, or press cmd-L to get
to the location bar, nothing happens.  I can't type anything in the input. 
Switching firefox windows doesn't help.  Clicking away to another application
and then back to firefox always fixes the problem... temporarily.  Other related
problems: I'll press cmd-W to close the current window and instead a window
behind the current one will close.  Or... the blinking cursor for input will be
in the location bar and will not let me move it to the page (so I can page down
with the arrow keys or space bar) or to a form input textbox.  This happens
regularly.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
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Actual Results:  
see details

Expected Results:  
see details

Comment 1

[Asaf Romano (gone)]

In 1.0RC1 and up you can choose how other applications open external links, see 
Firefox Menu->Preferences->Advanced->Tabbed Browsing.

Comment 2

[Patrick Walsh]

I beg your pardon, but how other applications open firefox windows is *not* the
problem.  The problems are in Firefox.  If I open a new firefox window, the
input that should be going to my foremost firefox window goes instead to a
firefox window in the back.  Particularly when I use hotkeys like Cmd-W to close
the window.  Also, I frequently can't get to the location bar via cmd-L commands.  

Firefox is unusable for me.  I've wiped my profiles directory and tried and same
thing continues.  I'm back to using Mozilla until someone fixes this.  The issue
is *not* resolved.

Comment 3

[Asaf Romano (gone)]

Oh, Sorry! wrong bug :-/

Comment 4

[kolonay]

I too am having this exact same problem with Firefox 1.0.1 on Mac OSX 10.3.8 on
a G3 600MHz w/ 512MB of RAM.  The problem seems to happen if I have more than
one tab open, minimize Firefox to the dock, and then reopen the minimized
window.  If I click a link to open a new window from the page that is currently
"stuck" in firefox, functionality returns to normal.

I am running Firefox 1.0 on my G4 iBook using Mac OSX 10.3.8 and have never
experienced this behavior.

Comment 5

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 6

[Fabio Russo]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 283050 ***