305074 - Focus change via JavaScript loses form data

Status: VERIFIED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Muhammad Isnaini]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050717 Firefox/1.0.6
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050717 Firefox/1.0.6

please try in javascript  form.id_name.focus();  --> action will be refresh form
and lost all entry.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.make form / document with name form and editbox with name id_name.
2.every call form.id_name.focus() --> will refresh form.
3.

Actual Results:  
Everything user entry will lost because firefox use refresh.

Expected Results:  
Will -- move focus, without refresh.

Comment 1

[Dave Townsend [:mossop]]

Please attach a simple testcase that demonstrates this problem.

Comment 2

[Muhammad Isnaini]

20050822 -- I found that error is not on focus(), but every keypress always 
submit ( then refresh ).
Can Firefox only submit it another function in javascript hook event ?.

Comment 3

[Aaron Racine]

Reporter, are you still seeing this problem with the latest release of Firefox when using a clean profile?

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_Manager

Comment 4

[Samuel Sidler (old account; do not CC)]

Muhammad, please attach a testcase that exhibits the behavior you described and make sure that this doesn't happen using Firefox 2.0.0.6 or later with a clean profile (link in comment 3). Reopen this bug when you do so.