274796 - Plugin pages eat key strokes that location bar should get

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Core Graveyard :: Plug-ins, defect, P3)

Description

[William Bardwell]

If you load a full page plugin handle file type,
and go to the location bar, and type in it, when you
move the mouse down over the plugin page (even with
click to focus), the location bar stops getting key
presses.  It will get key presses again if you move the
mouse pointer over any part of the browser provided UI.

If you load an HTML page, and click in the location bar,
the key strokes continue to go to the location bar when
you move the mouse over the web page, until you click on
the web page.  This is what I would expect the plugin case
to do.

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

I'm betting the problem is that X is delivering the key events to the plugin
widget and the plugin is simply never passing them on to us.... so we have no
idea a key was even pressed.

Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 3

[William Bardwell]

Still a problem.  I am not convinced by that explaination, since all
plugins seem to show the same behavior.  Maybe the browser created window
that is passed to the plugins is the problem window?

Comment 4

[Andrew Schultz]

marking NEW although it might not be fixable

Comment 5

[BMO Automation]

Resolving as wont fix, plugin support deprecated in Firefox 85.