295898 - Switching tabs with Ctrl+Tab keeps link navigation on previous tab.

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Firefox :: Keyboard Navigation, defect)

Description

[Daniel N.]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4

Had 2 tabs open.  Navigating in the links in one page with the keyboard, then
Control-Tab'd to the previous tab and tried to navigate with the Tab key. 
Instead of navigating the links on the new tab, according to the status bar at
the bottom, the navigation was occuring in the previous tab.

Linux, Debian testing, Firefox-1.0.4 pull from CVS tagged branch.

Tab-related prefs:

user_pref("browser.tabs.autoHide", false);
user_pref("browser.tabs.loadBookmarksInBackground", true);
user_pref("browser.tabs.loadDivertedInBackground", true);
user_pref("browser.tabs.loadFolderAndReplace", false);
user_pref("browser.tabs.loadGroup", 0);
user_pref("browser.tabs.opentabfor.bookmarks", true);
user_pref("browser.tabs.opentabfor.windowopen", true);


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open two tabs.
2. Navigate on second tab with Tab key.
3. Control+Tab to previous tab.
4. Tab navigate

Actual Results:  
Navigation continued on previous tab, not on currently visible tab.

Expected Results:  
Navigation occurs on currently visible tab.

Comment 1

[Peter van der Woude [:Peter6]]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050527
Firefox/1.0+ ID:2005052711

WFM

is this happening all the time ?
It may well be one of the many focus glitches that occur on and off

Comment 2

[Daniel N.]

It depends on the browser session.  Sometimes, it always happens after I start
up the browser and try navigating via keyboard.  At other times, it doesn't seem
to happen at all.

FYI, now that you mention focus, I remember filing bugs wrt focus that were
fixed already, but reproduction required a few odd things.  My browser has the
bookmark bar disabled and everything removed from the nav bar except the URL
entry field.

Dunno if this will affect it, but running Enlightenment as well.

Comment 3

[jbaber]

This exact same thing happens to me, too.  I built my FireFox for netBSD 2.0.2
(i386) from pkgsrc.

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; NetBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050525 Firefox/1.0.4

Comment 4

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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