312311 - Focus is stolen from text entry box when another window refreshes

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 310825

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

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User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b5) Gecko/20051006 Firefox/1.4.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b5) Gecko/20051006 Firefox/1.4.1

Specifically, when entering text in a textarea or textbox in one window, focus
is stolen every time another window (that does not currently have focus)
refreshes. This does not seem to apply to different tabs but to separate windows
only.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open a window (win1) that will refresh/redirect periodically on its own.
2. Open another window (win2) for entering text (i.e., make sure it has a
textbox or textarea). Make sure this window has focus.
3. Enter text into the textarea/textbox in win2 while win1 is
refreshing/redirecting.
Actual Results:  
The text-entry focus is stolen from the textbox, requiring me to select the
textbox again to continue entering information. When the background window
refreshes often, this is irritating!

Expected Results:  
The focus of the text-entry carat should be irrelevant of actions going on in
other windows.

Comment 1

[Martijn Wargers (dead)]

Probably duplicate of bug 310825.

Comment 2

[Adam Guthrie]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 310825 ***