442535 - OS X Firefox interface requires extra clicks for common operations

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 392188

(Firefox :: Shell Integration, enhancement)

Description

[Michael]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9) Gecko/2008061004 Firefox/3.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9) Gecko/2008061004 Firefox/3.0

Clicking on a link in Firefox 3 on OS X requires twice the number of clicks as Safari on the same platform.  The first click in Firefox makes the browser window the active window.  The second activates the link.  (This is true specifically for the bookmarks toolbar.)  In Safari, links on the bookmarks toolbar highlight when the mouse hovers over them, and a single click is all that is required to activate the link.  Links within a page on both browsers have the same behavior - window activation is required first.  However, it would make sense to allow a click to activate any link immediately whether or not the browser window is the active window, since the interface is never used to move or resize the browser window.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.  In firefox, hover over bookmarks toolbar folder link, click once to activate window, click again to activate actual link
2. In safari, hover over bookmarks toolbar folder link, click once to activate link.
Actual Results:  
Firefox takes twice as many clicks to activate a bookmarks toolbar link as Safari

Expected Results:  
Activating the link (any link, not just bookmarks toolbar) should not require a separate window activation.  This is inefficient, and apparently not necessary, since many programs, including Safari, can clearly detect a mouse hovering over them even when they are not in the active window.