290329 - Firefox won't accept keyboard input on startup

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 283050

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Adam H. Pendleton]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050317 Firefox/1.0.2
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050317 Firefox/1.0.2

When starting firefox, the browser will not accept any keyboard input until I
give focus to another application and then return focus to firefox.  When a
popup window is opened, that window will also not get accept text input until I
switch to another app, then switch back.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open firefox
2. Try to type in the address bar
3. Switch to another app
4. Switch back to Firefox
5. Type in address bar

Actual Results:  
Firefox will not accept input until you switch away and then back

Expected Results:  
Accept text input with having to switch to another app first.

Comment 1

[Adam H. Pendleton]

This bug also occurs with Thunderbird, but it is much more intermittent and much
harder to describe.

Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 3

[Fabio Russo]

i think they are the same bug.
a good thing pointed out is that switching app and going back to firefox fixes
the problem temporarily.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 283050 ***