397342 - Opening new tab doesn't always give focus in the location bar

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 407852

(Firefox :: Tabbed Browser, defect)

Description

[Ingemar Nilsson]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9a8) Gecko/2007091216 GranParadiso/3.0a8
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9a8) Gecko/2007091216 GranParadiso/3.0a8

When running Firefox (and Gran Paradiso) on Windows XP, sometimes when opening a new tab, the location bar will have a cursor, but will not accept input. Pressing CTRL-L usually solves the problem, but that shouldn't be necessary.


Reproducible: Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open a new tab
2. Type a web address
3. Look at the location bar
Actual Results:  
The location bar is empty.

Expected Results:  
The location bar contains the web address I typed

This problem seems to be Windows-specific. I never ran into this problem on Linux, even though I use Firefox more often in Linux than in Windows.

Comment 1

[Ingemar Nilsson]

FYI: This bug still appears in Gran Paradiso Alpha 8.

Comment 2

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

Did you also test this in safe-mode?
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Safe_Mode_(Firefox)

Comment 3

[Ingemar Nilsson]

No, I didn't try running in safe mode, but I'll surely do that if it could help.

Comment 4

[Ingemar Nilsson]

I have been running Gran Paradiso in safe mode since yesterday, and the problem occurred again less than five minutes ago.

Comment 5

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9a9pre) Gecko/2007093023 Minefield/3.0a9pre

Yesterday I saw that the caret was missing in the filter of about:config, also when I clicked in the input field. It was a new profile and I could not repeat it.

Comment 6

[(mostly gone) XtC4UaLL [:xtc4uall]]

this (ctrl+t + locationbar resp. about:config) is WFM Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9b2pre) Gecko/2007112205 Minefield/3.0b2pre ID:2007112205