536576 - Focus and selection removed from search bar when switching between tabs

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox :: Tabbed Browser, defect)

Description

[Alice0775 White]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2b6pre) Gecko/20091223 Firefox/3.5.5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2b6pre) Gecko/20091223 Firefox/3.5.5

Behavior is different from a previous version.
Open tabs more than two and each contents is without selection.
And selection of the words in the searchbar.
And switch tab .

In Firefox3.5.6:
The selection in the searchbar is not collapsed.

In Namoroka3.6b6pre & Minefield3.7a1pre:
The selection in the searchbar is collapsed.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Start Minefield with new profile.
2.Open Two tabs (ex. http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/central/ and   http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/central/ )
3.Input any words in the serchbar and select it.
4.Switch tab by cliking tab or Ctrl+Tab.

Actual Results:  
The selection in the searchbar is collapsed.


Expected Results:  
The selection in the searchbar should not be collapsed.


Regression range:
Works:
http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/001e14d17a30
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.3a1pre) Gecko/20091030 Minefield/3.7a1pre ID:20091030060356

Broken:
http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/7e0336a4f6fd
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.3a1pre) Gecko/20091031 Minefield/3.7a1pre ID:20091031042521

Pushlog;
http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/pushloghtml?fromchange=001e14d17a30&tochange=7e0336a4f6fd

Comment 1

[Alice0775 White]

This issue happens also on
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2b6pre) Gecko/20091223 Namoroka/3.6b6pre ID:20091223052417

Comment 2

[Alice0775 White]

This broke also selection of serch box in sidebar bookmarks.

Comment 3

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+2]]

Confirmed with Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.2b6pre) Gecko/20091227 Namoroka/3.6b6pre ID:20091227033656

Looks like that this is the bug I was asking for in bug 509298 comment 20 but never got a reply.

Comment 4

[Liviu Cirdei]

User Agent 	Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64; rv:49.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/49.0
Build ID 	20160518030234

Still reproducible on latest Nightly (49.0a1).