358940 - Firefox loses keyboard input after opening up Flash site Pandora

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 355071

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Ari Consul]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/20061010 Firefox/2.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/20061010 Firefox/2.0

After 

- opening up http://www.pandora.com in a new window (intermittent)
- right-clicking and selecting "about Adobe Flash  Firefox (intermittent)
- selecting a new station

Firefox loses keyboard input into 
- address box
- search box
- all text-boxes

The I-beam (keyboard focus) will move - just can't enter any text.

Some actions "fix" this - opening up a new window via File --> New window seems to temporarily fix the problem.




Reproducible: Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
Will try to comment with better reproducible steps.  These steps should work (requires pandora account (free) with at least 2 stations).

1.  Start Firefox.
2.  Open up Gmail
3.  Open up a new window.  
4.  Select a different station.

Actual Results:  
Cannot enter text into
- search box
- address (URL) box
- Google mail

Expected Results:  
Allowed keyboard input into all text boxes.

Harware:

  Machine Name:	PowerBook G4 15"
  Machine Model:	PowerBook3,5
  CPU Type:	PowerPC G4  (3.2)
  Number Of CPUs:	1
  CPU Speed:	1 GHz
  L2 Cache (per CPU):	256 KB
  L3 Cache (per CPU):	1 MB
  Memory:	1 GB
  Bus Speed:	133 MHz
  Boot ROM Version:	4.5.3f2

Firefox Add-ons:

de.licious 1.2
dom inspector 1.8.1
Flashblock 1.5.2
Google Notebook 1.0.0.10
GTDGmail 1.31
Selenium IDE 0.8.3
Talkback 2.0

Comment 1

[Ari Consul]

New items:

- if you have three windows open, switching between the two non-pandora windows is enough to allow input
- switching to another program and back to firefox is enough to allow input

More detailed steps:

- non-pandora windows should have a text input area (e.g. input type=text)
- for my tests I chose the action to be chosing a new station - it may be other actions cause the input problem but I have not tested.  again, you will need a pandora acct with 2 stations.

Here's a more detailed set of steps:

1.  Open new firefox window with a text input box
2.  input text into (1) address box (2) search box (3) text input box on the page.  confirm that text gets entered
3.  Open a second window with text input
4.  Open a new window and go to http://www.pandora.com.  Let page load and start playing music
5.  Go back to first two pages - confirm that all three boxes (address, search, on web page) accept input - on both pages.
6.  Go back to pandora page.  Select a different radio station.  Allow it to load and start playing music.
7.  Switch to one of the other pages (I used Expose to do this).  Try to enter text into address/search/on-page-form.  Note that the I-bar focus goes to each area but does not accept input, even after a few minutes.
8.  Switch to 2nd non-pandora window.  You should be able to enter text.
9   Switch back to the original window.  You should now be able to enter text.

Comment 2

[Ari Consul]

Switching between tabs  restoreskeyboard input.  Switching back and forth between windows also restores keyboard input.

Rough reproduction steps:

1.  open up (1) tab with non-pandora (non-p) (2) tab with pandora (3) new non-p window
2.  check text input in non-p tab and non-p window
3.  change stations, and switch between tabs - non-p tab should have input
4.  go back to pandora, switch stations again
5.  go to the non-p window (by clicking or by expose) and try entering text (should FAIL)
6.  switch back to the pandora window and then back to the non-p window.  Try entering text (succeeds)

Comment 3

[Adam Guthrie]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 355071 ***