495450 - Form autocomplete stops working when detaching/tearing off a tab

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 477797

(Toolkit :: Autocomplete, defect)

Description

[Sylvain Pasche]

I can reproduce this on Linux, but not on Windows.

Steps:
 1. open data:text/html,<form><input type=text name=foo>
 2. submit a few entries to enable form autocomplete in the text field.
 3. tear off the tab to open it in a new window (it must not be the only tab for this to work).
 4. Try to type the first letter of something you submitted earlier in order to show the autocomplete popup.

Result:
 The form autocomplete popup does not show. I also noticed that clicking on the text field flashes the "Search Bookmarks and History" label in the address bar of the parent window, but maybe that's has nothing to do with this issue.

Expected:
 You should see the form autocomplete popup.

Note that this could seem similar to bug 477797, but this doesn't happen on Windows and the regression range doesn't match.

Comment 1

[Sylvain Pasche]

I can reproduce on Windows if the window that contained the detached tab is closed. In fact this is a duplicate of bug 477797, the regression range may not match (if the one in bug 477797 comment 3 is correct) because of the symptoms between Linux and Windows are different.