37588 - about:blank should set focus to location bar

Status: VERIFIED WONTFIX

(SeaMonkey :: UI Design, enhancement, P3)

Description

[Jesse Ruderman]

About:blank should include javascript to check whether it's the top frame (not 
framed or iframed), and then set focus to the location bar.  

Alternatively, the location bar could be selected on startup if "display blank 
page on startup" is selected.

Comment 1

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

over to Event Handling

Comment 2

[joki (gone)]

Setting feature requests to remind to look at when bug list is lower.

Comment 3

[ckritzer (gone)]

Mass update:  changing qacontact to [e-mail]

Comment 4

[Loco]

Updating QA Contact.

Comment 5

[Matthew T (active 1999-2002)]

REMIND is deprecated, reopening and setting to Future.

It would seem to make most sense just to give the location field focus in any new 
browser window, no matter whether it contains about:blank or anything else.

Comment 6

[Jesse Ruderman]

Several people have complained that always giving focus to the location bar 
would block keyboard scrolling.  See bug 37638 for one example.

Comment 7

[David Baron :dbaron: (⌚️UTC-4, no longer working on Mozilla)]

This RFE would probably be implemented in JS in the UI code, not in the core
event system.  Changing component and reassigning.

IMO, this seems like a reasonable thing to do, for about:blank only.

Comment 8

[Avi Rappoport]

Please, please make new blank windows have the focus on the location bar.  

On my version, (Mac OS 9, Mozilla 9.3), it gives two tempting flashes of the
insertion bar caret and then disappears.  I'm used to opening a new window and
starting to type a location, I hate to have to click to make it happen.

Comment 9

[Andreas M. "Clarence" Schneider]

Marking this WONTFIX because
1) location bar *has* focus after loading about:blank into a new window
2) it seems not possible (without major changes) for about:blank itself to set
   focus to the location bar.

Note that sidebar steals focus from the location bar after loading about:blank,
even if it's collapsed (bug 76621).

Comment 10

[Avi Rappoport]

I have addressed this by choosing not to view the search sidebar, so can live
with it.  I'm sure very few other people open as many new windows as I do!

Comment 11

[Matthew T (active 1999-2002)]

Unauthorized wontfix, reopening.

Comment 12

[Ben Goodger (use ben at mozilla dot org for email)]

I think this should be WONTFIXED, and smarter new window focus behaviour 
implemented. 

Comment 13

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

this seems to work, wrt opening about:blank from the open web location dialog.
shrug.