502405 - Unable to enter site address while in full screen mode (F11)

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 494373

(Firefox :: Keyboard Navigation, defect)

Description

[Ivan Brykov]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1) Gecko/20090624 Firefox/3.5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1) Gecko/20090624 Firefox/3.5

While being in full screen mode I open new tab and try to type in site address in address bar (opened by mouse or F6 key). Instead of letting me enter it Firefox seems to be stuck in some process: it lets me edit the default gray message "Search Bookmarks and History" and whatever I type appears in the same gray font style, hitting Enter key does not start page loading, suggestions do not appear.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go into full screen mode: hit F11
2. Open new tab: hit CTRL-T
3. Bring down address bar: F6
4. Try to enter any address you want
Actual Results:  
Address seems not to be accepted and does not result in page loading.

Expected Results:  
Address had to be accepted and result in page loading.

You can restore address bar functionality by letting it hide and appear for second time or by hitting F6 several times.

Comment 1

[Kevin Brosnan]

For now ctrl + l will always focus the address bar.

Comment 2

[Ivan Brykov]

Yes, CTRL+L works fine. Still I think that address bar has to be accessible by the mouse.