289278 - Pressing "Tab" in location bar should move focus off it

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 97918

(Firefox :: Address Bar, defect)

Description

[Timwi]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050317 Firefox/1.0.2 StumbleUpon/1.9993
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050317 Firefox/1.0.2 StumbleUpon/1.9993

Currently, while keyboard focus is on the Location Bar, the behaviour of the Tab
key is dependent on whether the drop-down area is visible or not.

If it isn't, Tab behaves as expected. (Moves focus to content area.)

If it is, however, Tab behaves like the Arrow-Down key. This is unexpected
behaviour, and quite annoying, especially because the drop-down field often
appears without being asked explicitly (e.g. when you're just typing in the
Location Bar).

I know that I can press Esc to have the drop-down field disappear and thus
restore the correct behaviour of the Tab key, but this is still annoying.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[Ed Lee :Mardak]

Also related to Bug 86643 which has been marked WONTFIX, but some disagree.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 97918 ***