288520 - ctrl+t new tab hotkey becomes disabled after clicking "show quoted text" in Google groups

Status: VERIFIED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: Tabbed Browser, defect)

Description

[Don Jackson]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050317 Firefox/1.0.2
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050317 Firefox/1.0.2

View a Google Groups archived discussion like the one at the link above.  Click
on "Show Quoted Text".  The new tab hotkey (ctrl+T) is disabled.  The menu and
ctrl_clicking still work to open new tabs.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. View a Google Groups archived discussion like the one at the link above.
2. Click on "Show Quoted Text".
3. Try to press CTRL+T to open a new tab.

Actual Results:  
Nothing (no tab opened).

Expected Results:  
A new tab should have opened.

Comment 1

[William Bumgarner [:zsinj]]

WFM Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050331
Firefox/1.0+

Try updating to one of the nightly builds used for testing purposes. These are
relatively reliable and are available at the bottom of this page...

...hrm... When I open a new tab to pull up the bookmarked page, the address bar
no longer displays anything. Click on "Nightly Builds" at developer.mozilla.org
to get a night build. I'm off to submit another report for 20050331.

Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 3

[Don Jackson]

I've downloaded several nightly build during reseaching this.  I can reproduce
this error in the latest versions of 1.0.7+ and the 1.5 beta 1 of Firefox.  It
is a minor bug, but it affects me quite often in the tasks I perform with Firefox.

Pick any Google Groups article with the "Show Quoted Text" link to anchor and
click it.  Ctrl+T will not open a new tab until after you click somthing else...
 It may do this for other links to anchors in DHTML code.

Comment 4

[Rodolfo Valeiras]

I think this is a conflict with JavaScript. The workaround is pressing the tab key   for facilitate the detection of Ctrl-t and other keyboard shortcuts to Firefox.

Comment 5

[ramons]

I can confirm this bug to exist in FF 1.5. I also suspect it to be related to JavaScript as I find JS to be in all those pages when I experience this problem.
Any CTRL+<key> input should be handled independently from the content viewed - or better to say, I cannot think of anything that is browsable and that makes use of CTRL+<key> input.
The only workaround I know of is to select "New Tab" from File menu.

Comment 6

[Gabriel Sjoberg]

WFM Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20060120 Firefox/1.6a1 ID:2006012005

Comment 7

[William Bumgarner [:zsinj]]

<- Verified w/ 1.5.0.2