439685 - Ctrl+Tab stops working with Flash application

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 78414

(Firefox :: Tabbed Browser, defect)

Description

[Timwi]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-GB; rv:1.9) Gecko/2008052906 Firefox/3.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-GB; rv:1.9) Gecko/2008052906 Firefox/3.0

See STR.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open three tabs.
2. In the middle tab, open something with a flash application (e.g. a YouTube video).
3. Click on the flash application (e.g. to pause the video).
4. Click on the first tab with the mouse(!).
5. Press Ctrl+Tab twice.
Actual Results:  
Firefox gets stuck on the middle tab.

Expected Results:  
Ctrl+Tab should ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS switch to the next tab. ALWAYS!

Comment 1

[Roman]

ALWAYS!

Reproduced on Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-GB; rv:1.9)
Gecko/2008052906 Firefox/3.0

Comment 2

[Timwi]

In fact, now that I try it further, even Ctrl+T and Ctrl+W and basically EVERYTHING stops working once you click on that flash applet.

And there's absolutely no way to escape it. Normally I'd escape a form element by pressing Ctrl+L, but with flash applets even *that* doesn't work. Firefox is basically completely unnavigable once you've clicked that applet.

Comment 4

[Roman]

Dão: I don't think this is a dupe of bug 78414. Only comment #2 is. But check out STR in detail - initially no flash applet is focussed, but the mere act of Ctrl+T'ing through tabs focusses the flash applet.

I can see that the intention was probably to keep whatever was focussed in a tab focussed after the tab gets activated again, but it has this very unfortunate side effect that you can no longer reliably flip through tabs, and get stuck occasionally.

Comment 5

[Roman]

Never mind, Timwi convinced me that it was in fact basically the same thing.