359680 - When you open the flash web page, URL will be blocked.

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: Disability Access, defect)

Description

[Pavel]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/20061010 Firefox/2.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/20061010 Firefox/2.0

When you open flash web page (http://www.*.swf) and modified that URL to e.g. http://asdf.swf and do not press ENTER or "Go to the address in the Location Bar" just click somewhere else. The URL address will be blocked and it is not possible to modified URL address again. Only when you create new TAB, or click to another tab and return to previous flash page.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open some flash URL address (e.g. http://www.messe-ideen.de/upload/magische-zauberkugel.swf)
2. Tried to modified the URL address to e.g. http://asdf.swf (but do not press ENTER or CONFIRM)
3. Click somewhere else in Mozilla Firefox (change focus of cursor)
4. Go back to URL and tried to modified URL again.

Actual Results:  
The URL address can't be modified.

Expected Results:  
The URL address should be modified.

Comment 1

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20061105 Minefield/3.0a1

I see this bug indeed in Firefox 2.0, but it is fixed on trunk. 
So the patch will be included in Firefox 3.0.