463234 - Multiple tabs are selected on preview pane

Status: NEW

(Firefox :: Tabbed Browser, defect)

Description

[Tony Chung [:tchung]]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.1b2pre) Gecko/20081105 Minefield/3.1b2pre
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.1b2pre) Gecko/20081105 Minefield/3.1b2pre

Selected more than one tab at once.  See screenshot, 2 tabs are highlighted instead of just one.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. launch trunk, and open 3+ tabs
2. ctrl-tab to tab preview pane
3. While holding CTRL button down, use your mouse and click the "search" box to lock the pane into place
4. now move your mouse freely, and notice that one of the tabs is highlighted, while your mouse moves around freely to highlight others.

See screenshot
Actual Results:  
2 tabs highlighted

Expected Results:  
1 tab highlighted

Comment 1

[Tony Chung [:tchung]]

Attachment: multi selected tabs screenshot

Comment 2

[Steven Michaud [:smichaud] (Retired)]

I'm not entirely sure this is a bug.

But in any case it also happens (in recent Minefield nightlies) on
Windows and Linux.  And you don't need to click on the search box to
see it.