367440 - Homepage steals focus from address bar after loading

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 125282

(Firefox :: Keyboard Navigation, enhancement)

Description

[Robert Porl]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.1) Gecko/20061208 Firefox/2.0.0.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.1) Gecko/20061208 Firefox/2.0.0.1

I, like many others i suppose, am using google as my homepage in Firefox.

I also use the key combination C-N, C-L very often to open a new window and load up something completely unrelated to what i was looking at before (in fact, that's the only reason to open a new window for me; for things that belong together, i use tabs).
One little annoyance that always bugged me was that if i was having a slow network connection or whatever, so google took some seconds to load, and i already typed in some of the address i wanted to go to, google's search field would steal my focus. I think older versions of Firefox even replaced my already-typed letters with www.google.de after finishing loading it.

So what i would like to see could be called "strict focus" for the address bar. It could be tied to the C-L hotkey i guess, but it might be a good thing for user *clicking* into the address bar (and immediately starting to type afterwards), too.

Call this a humble request of mine that would make my firefox experience complete :-)

-Robert


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Have a slow-loading webpage with a submit form set as your homepage
2.Have the option set to open new windows with your homepage
3.Open a new window and switch to its address bar (C-N, C-L)
4.Type something before the page loads


Actual Results:  
Watch as the page steals your keyboard focus from the address bar :-)

Expected Results:  
Keep the focus on the address bar when i just manually switched to it (and/or i was typing into it)