297256 - link text box freezes after a CTRL+T and a fast F6

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Dimitri Flores]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4

when navigating a page and hitting CTRL+t for a new tab then a fast f6 for a
fast address editing the text box freezes. only a Refresh or a restart unblocks
the link editing box.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open a page
2. Hit CTRL+T for a new tab
3. Without waiting hit a F6
4. Try to edit the link... at this point the link text box is frozen or not
giving feedback

Actual Results:  
the link text box is frozen or not giving feedback


Expected Results:  
You can edit a new address

Unconfortable for power users.

Comment 1

[Adam Guthrie]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050609
Firefox/1.0+ ID:2005060918

For me opening a new tab automatically focuses the address bar. But, if I do hit
F6 really fast after it will sometimes focus the whole tab (which is in effect
the "next frame"). Maybe you're hitting F6 too fast and it's focusing the tab?

Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 3

[Adam Guthrie]

WORKSFORME. Please reopen if you can reproduce in the builds that gerv mentioned.