362898 - Keyboard shortcuts not behaving properly when opening a new tab

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: Tabbed Browser, defect)

Description

[Josh Belasco]

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 I open a new tab (after using keyboard shortcut ctrl+T) in order to input a new URL, I am often used to having the text cursor blinking in the address bar. Since I have upgraded, this is not the case. In the past, when there is no blinking text cursor, I press the tab key on my keyboard to get the blinking text cursor, but this time, pressing the tab key on a new, blank page only seems to jump around from hyperlink to hyperlink on the tab I was previously at, from what I can see on the status bar on the bottom of the Firefox window.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open Firefox.
2. Visit any website (eg. www.google.com).
3. Open a new tab using keyboard shortcut ctrl + T.
4. Try to type in a new URL in the address bar of the blank page.
4a. If blinking text cursor is not at address bar, press the tab key on the keyboard to bring up said blinking text cursor. Pay attention to the status bar on bottom of Firefox window. Do you see a correlation between the links you see on the status bar and the links seen on the first tab while still on the blank page?
Actual Results:  
The blinking text cursor does not appear in the address bar, nor does using the tab key on the keyboard enable the use of said blinking text cursor in the address bar.

Expected Results:  
The blinking text cursor should have appeared in the address bar. On the event that it does not, using the tab key on the keyboard should enable the use of a blinking text cursor in the address bar.

The bug occurs in the default theme.

about:buildconfig details:

Build platform
target
i586-pc-msvc

Build tools
Compiler 	Version 	Compiler flags
$(CYGWIN_WRAPPER) cl 	12.00.8804 	-TC -nologo -W3 -Gy -Fd$(PDBFILE)
$(CYGWIN_WRAPPER) cl 	12.00.8804 	-TP -nologo -W3 -Gy -Fd$(PDBFILE)

Configure arguments
--enable-application=browser --enable-update-channel=release --enable-official-branding --enable-optimize --disable-debug --disable-tests --enable-static --disable-shared --enable-svg --enable-canvas --enable-update-packaging

Comment 1

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

Unfortunately, the most important bit of information is the one you didn't give: what extensions? There've been several associated with that same general sort of symptom. Do you still see it in safe mode (http://kb.mozillazine.org/Safe_mode)?

Comment 2

[Josh Belasco]

I read your comment regarding the extensions, and as it turns out, there was an extension I had just downloaded last night - the Facebook Toolbar for Firefox, which was right about the time this problem started occurring. So I went to the Add-ons menu, disabled it, and voilá, it worked. Thanks for the help. I will send the Facebook Team a feedback e-mail regarding this issue.

-Josh

Comment 3

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

FIXED means "we checked in code to fix it" - instead, you get the rather rude and abrupt INVALID. Personally, I wouldn't take it to heart.

Comment 4

[Josh Belasco]

No worries. Thanks again.