310309 - Control-tab does not change address bar address when another F/F window has an open dialogue box.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 257121

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[G Henwood]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050915 Firefox/1.0.7
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050915 Firefox/1.0.7


When one window has a dialogue box open (eg 'save as'), and then focus is
swapped to another firefox window which has several tabs, then switching between
tabs using ctrl-tab/shift-control-tab will show the web page in the main window,
but will NOT change the address shown in the address bar, and sometimes the tab
header/title will not be put in the foreground.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. open FFox, and open two tabs, pointing to two different web addresses.
2. enter ctrl-n to open another window of firefox.
3. in this new window, choose File-Save as. 
4  with the dialogue still active, switch to original Firefox window.
5  try to swap between the two tabs using control-[shift]-tab


Actual Results:  
several things to observe here:

 the web page is displayed in main display, but the web address displayed in the
address bar never changes from the address used as the first foreground tab.
Usually, the correct tab in the ‘tab bar’ (?) is not in the ‘foreground’ (not in
front, and not in bold).  But note that sometimes it does . (see also notes below).
 occassionally page icon DOES appear in the address bar.



Expected Results:  

The address bar should change contents:  All web pages switched to should have
their correct web address displayed. 

Compare and contrast behaviour when the dialogue box is not opened in the other
window. 



There appears to be slightly different behaviour when choosing a different
dialogue box (eg File Open) in the other window.   Possibly other dialogue boxes
as well?  I haven't tried.



Reproduced in FF 1.06 on XP as well as 1.07 on windows 2000. 

Moving the mouse alters behaviour.  Moving mouse to over the tab (NOT clicking).
brings the page title/tab into the foreground/makes it bold. 

Using the mouse to switch tabs will always have the correct tab in the
foreground, but the address in the address bar will NEVER change as long as the
dialogue box is open.

Comment 1

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

See Bug 123913.

Comment 2

[Adam Guthrie]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 123913 ***

Comment 3

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 257121 ***