315878 - changing url in location bar with drop-down does not always update correctly

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Todd A Voge]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051025 Firefox/1.5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051025 Firefox/1.5

When choosing a url in the location bar drop-down, at times, the system reverts back to the previous url instead of the new one.  There is no rhyme or reason to when this happens.  Pulling down the drop-down and reselecting the new url then takes me to the correct location.

Reproducible: Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Click down-arrow on location bar
2.Select new url from listing
3.at times, system will revert to the previous url instead of new url.  very sporadic


Actual Results:  
as discussed in details

Expected Results:  
new website should have been loaded

Comment 1

[Adam Guthrie]

*** Bug 324275 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 2

[Steve-o]

After some additional testing it appears to affect tablet mode more than notebook mode.  From a distant view it appears that firefox is marking a highlighted URL in memory and jumping to that URL then the mouse is clicked. In tablet mode the URL's are hardly ever selected and hence I see this more. Additional evidence is that selecting through the URL list causes the desired functionality.

Comment 3

[Steve-o]

line 261, function HandleEnter in:

seamonkey/ toolkit/ components/ autocomplete/ src/ nsAutoCompleteController.cpp 

This code does not work with no selected index:

269     if (popup) {
270       PRInt32 selectedIndex;
271       popup->GetSelectedIndex(&selectedIndex);
272       *_retval = selectedIndex >= 0;
273     }

I haven't found the mouse driving events for this yet, as technically this section is ok, but the driver appears as onmouseup() and it ignores any mouse location.

Comment 4

[Steve-o]

Flash demo of bug moved:

http://fnjordy.umcus.org/mozilla/tablet.swf

Comment 5

[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 6

[Carsten Book [:Tomcat]]

I can't reproduce using Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.2; en-US; rv:1.9a6pre) Gecko/20070701 Minefield/3.0a6pre ID:2007070104. Closing as WFM.

Reporter, if you're still seeing this, please comment with details and reopen.