442218 - Windows generic modal save window "enter name of file to save to..." loose focus when downloading anything

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 431544

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Frank]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9) Gecko/2008052906 Firefox/3.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9) Gecko/2008052906 Firefox/3.0

Set:  Tools>Options>Main>Downloads>Show the Downloads window...
      Tools>Options>Main>Downloads>Always ask me where to save files...

Open any web page with a link to download a file (make sure the content handler is save file in Tools>Options>Applications).

Click the link to download (right clicking and choosing "Save Link As..." will also work though it seems to happen less often).

You get your usual non-modal "Opening _something_ ... What should firefox do with this file?" dialog box.

Select the radio button "Save file", and it [ENTER].

Now you finally get the generic Windows file save dialog (a class 32770 dialog), with the window titled "Enter name of file to save to..."

This window will be out of focus so the keyboard can't be used to navigate in it but there's worse:  ALT-TAB wont bring you to it but bring another application in focus instead of firefox, so only using ALT-TAB twice will finally bring you inside that window.

The "file name" text entry box should be in focus and the entire file name highlighted.

Hit [HOME] as if you would want to add a prefix to the file name, and type anything to add such a prefix.

Hit [ENTER]: Normally, this should confirm the file name, close the dialog, and save the file.  More often than not, [ENTER] will only rehighlight the whole text in the "file name" entry box.  You have to hit [ENTER] a number of random times to finally make the dialog box go away.

This is not the only erratic behavior with this dialog but definitely the easiest to reproduce.  Another erratic behavior is if you try to navigate directories using the directory content box (the largest in this modal dialog) and the mouse, by double clicking directories to navigate, sometimes (randomly) the double clicks will not be acknowledged and you won't descend into the subdirectory, like double clicking on a subdirectory name is supposed to do.

In short, the "Enter name of file to save to..." save file modal dialog behavior is very erratic and has focus problems. 

This makes it unusable with the keyboard (and annoying to use with the mouse if you want to do anything other than click the [SAVE] button.)

This also makes "Always ask me where to save files" option very unproductive as you're forced to use the mouse.

-> This doesn't happen with Firefox 2
-> This is confirmed starting Firefox 3 in -safe-mode
-> This is confirmed with the June 26th minefield nightly / latest-trunk.
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/latest-trunk/
using firefox-3.1a1pre.en-US.win32.zip.




Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Set:Tools>Options>Main>Downloads>Show the Downloads window...
      Tools>Options>Main>Downloads>Always ask me where to save files...

2.Open any web page with a link to download a file (make sure the content handler is save file in Tools>Options>Applications).

3.Click the link to download (right clicking and choosing "Save Link As..." will also work though it seems to happen less often).

4.Select the radio button "Save file", and it [ENTER].

5. Problem here: focus lost;  Continue following steps for further problems:

6. Hit ALT-TAB two times to return to the modal save file name dialog.

7. Hit HOME to add a prefix to the filename and type something (a valid prefix like "aiqwepowqe "

8. Hit ENTER: Problem here: The window doesn't close, but the filename gets highlighted

9. Keep hitting ENTER a random number of time: the window finally closes...
Actual Results:  
Step 5) -> Lose focus to firefox main window.

Step 8) -> Window doesn't close

Expected Results:  
Step 5) The modal dialog should gain focus.

Step 8) The window should close (see details in description for further erratic behavior)



I'm using Windows XP SP3. Like said above, I tried with a clean -safe-mode start of Firefox 3 and still repro.  Repro with latest trunk too.

Comment 1

[Frank]

I'm reassigning to General component since this seems to happen with any such window, not just the one the download manager spawns.

Comment 2

[Martín Melado]

I can confirm the bug and I can confirm it's very annoying if you don't have a mouse around or want to do things quickly. Please somebody fix it.

Comment 3

[Christian d'Heureuse]

Related: Bug 431544