447791 - auto-complete dropdown menu does not appear on new tabs

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 424646

(Firefox :: Address Bar, defect)

Description

[Luke]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.0.1) Gecko/2008070208 Firefox/3.0.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.0.1) Gecko/2008070208 Firefox/3.0.1

Auto-complete dropdown menu does not appear under the text input field, as it would normally, once you start typing.

Occurs when:

1. A web page containing a form is your home page and you open a new tab. 

2. The text field automatically has focus (or does it?). In other words, the blinking line is present in the text field as soon as the page loads and the user can start typing straight away without using the mouse or tabbing. 

It does NOT occur when:

1. You open a new instance of FireFox, with a single tab opened by default on your home page.

2. You manually enter the URL, link from another page or refresh the page.

3. If you have to manually give the field focus or you click out of the field and back in again.


I have not tested if this occurs when one page opens another page in a new tab.


The prerequisites for creating the problem may sound artificial but if Google is your home page (as it is mine and probably many others) it is quite a common thing to want to do.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Set Google as your home page.
2. Go to Google, type in a string of characters and submit the form.
3. Open a new tab and start typing the first few characters of the previous string (do not click anywhere else).
Actual Results:  
Auto-complete dropdown that offers suggestions does not appear

Expected Results:  
Autocomplete dropdown that offers suggestions should appear. Refresh the page and try again to see expected result.

Comment 2

[Stephen Donner [:stephend] Not actively reading bugmail]

Verified dup