272616 - Focus-ring restarts after going Back

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Poul Christiansen]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

When going Back to a page I would like the focus to be on the recently visited
link so that I can press <Tab> and <Enter> to visit the next link.

This would greatly simplify the use of Firefox with the keyboard only.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to http://www.mozilla.org.
2. Click on the first link under Announcements.
3. Go Back to the main page by clicking Back in the toolbar or pressing the
<Backspace> key
4. Now press the <Tab> key.

Actual Results:  
The focus moves to the first (?) link on the page.

Expected Results:  
The focus should move to the link right after the one just visited. After step 3
the focus should be on the link just visited (and returned from).

I see this problem on both Windows and Linux.

I am reporting this as a bug and not as a request for an enhancement because I
think it is a usability bug.

Comment 1

[Erik Wikström]

Any progress on this?

Comment 2

[Poul Christiansen]

(In reply to comment #1)
> Any progress on this?
> 
It seems fixed in Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.2) Gecko/20060308 Firefox/1.5.0.2 and probably earlier...

Comment 3

[Erik Wikström]

I'm using Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.2; en-US; rv:1.8.0.2) Gecko/20060308 Firefox/1.5.0.2 and it works sometimes, but not always. Unfortunately I've not been able to determine what makes it work or not. It can work the first 5 times but not the 6th, Sometimes it doesn't even work the first.

Comment 4

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

This behaves as expected with the latest Firefox nightly. If you can provide current steps to reproduce, please re-open.