271566 - focus on form controls on a page is lost when switching to other apps and comming back (Alt+Tab)

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Daniel Cazzulino]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

If you're entering data in a form, and switch to another application (to do
copy/paste for example), when you come back to FF, the focus is no longer on the
form control you were editing (actually I can't determine where the focus goes).
This makes it impossible to use third-party tools that accelerate this process
(such as PasswordMinder for secured password storage,
http://sourceforge.net/projects/pwdmind/).


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open Google home page. 
2. Start typing on the search box
3. Alt+Tab to another application
4. Alt+Tab back to FF
5. Try to continue typing. Focus is no longer on the search box.

Actual Results:  
Can't type in the form control that had the focus before.

Expected Results:  
Retain proper focus. 

This used to work in beta versions of FF. I only got this problem after
installing v1.

Comment 1

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

Worksforme, with the exact same version and OS: I've alt-tabbed away three times
while typing this, and focus stays right here. You might want to try Safe Mode
(in the Start Menu group, or run firefox.exe -safe-mode), or disable all your
extensions, to see if one of them is messing with focus.

Comment 2

[Daniel Cazzulino]

An extension is causing the issue. Haven't determined which one yet.
Thanks.