333695 - Not able to edit url

Status: NEW

(Core :: DOM: UI Events & Focus Handling, defect)

Description

[Manu P]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060111 Firefox/1.5.0.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060111 Firefox/1.5.0.1

If I go on the website: www.xn--pflzerluft-r5a.de, I can not edit the url. The focus constantly jumps out the url-field.
Further I know, that this side is redirected to www.metzgerei-kieffer.de .
So, firefox must have problems with redirections.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. go on www.xn--pflzerluft-r5a.de
2. try to edit url
3. doesn't work

Actual Results:  
3. doesn't work

Expected Results:  
The software should have let me edit the url (of course it should!).

Comment 1

[Steve England [:stevee]]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20060411 Firefox/3.0a1 ID:2006041202
I see this too.

Comment 2

[Steve England [:stevee]]

Actually, is this just the text box with the text being written into it stealing focus from the URL bar, and therefore not a bug?

Comment 3

[Gordon P. Hemsley [:GPHemsley]]

I think it is, comment 2, so I'm resolving this as INVALID. If anyone can prove otherwise, feel free to reopen this bug.

Comment 4

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+1]]

I don't think that this invalid for sure. It will make it really hard for disabled users to navigate inside the browser. Even for us it is not possible to enter any URL into the location bar. Which is annoying. Shall a web page really be able to steal the focus in such a consistent manner?

Marco and David, what do you both think?

Comment 5

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+1]]

I tested with Safari and there the focus stays in the location bar. The web page is not able to steal the focus at all.

Comment 6

[Marco Zehe (:MarcoZ)]

I think we should do the same as Safari in this case.

Comment 7

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

In case someone cares, here's what this bug needs to be fixed:

1) A testcase attached to the bug.
2) A clear spec of the desired behavior.

I agree that the current behavior is not desired.