300638 - Blank browser windows should initially focus to the Location bar

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Mark Neidengard]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.9) Gecko/20050711 Firefox/1.0.5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.9) Gecko/20050711 Firefox/1.0.5

This is a nuisance more than a bug per se.  As I recall, Mozilla did not have
this nuisance.

When a new browser window is instantiated (Ctrl-N or whatnot), focus currently
goes to the page area no matter what.  In the event that the page location is
blank (i.e. "about:blank"), it would be far more useful to have the focus start
in the Location box, allowing the user to immediately enter a URL without having
to Tab there first.

Hopefully this falls into the category of "easy cosmetic fix".


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Open a new browser window
2.Note where the focus is
3.Hit Tab repeatedly until you end up in the Location box

Actual Results:  
Wasted keystrokes

Expected Results:  
Focus should start in the Location box when a new window is empty (i.e.
"about:blank").

Comment 1

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This same (old) issue holds for new tabs. If my new page is set to default to about:blank then one would intuitively expect that the address bar should receive focus, just as the content area receives focus in new windows with content.

Comment 2

[Steve England [:stevee]]

Reporter, do you still see this problem with the latest Firefox 2? If not, can you please close this bug as WORKSFORME. Thanks!

Comment 3

[Mark Neidengard]

Seems to be working now as of Firefox 2.  Thanks for the reminder to close ^^;;