556820 - A dynamically loaded .pdf that is embedded with <embed> tag messes keyboard navigation

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[daniel.kuster]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.1; Trident/4.0; SLCC2; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729; Media Center PC 6.0)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; de; rv:1.9.2.3) Gecko/20100401 Firefox/3.6.3

After the download of the .pdf / creation of the <embed> tag an available textfield looses focus to the .pdf viewer. A click on the textarea doesn't give the focus back to the textarea. It is necessary to click somewhere OUTSIDE the textarea and then back in the textarea again to regain focus.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create account / login to verbosus.com
2. Press the 'Generate .pdf' button
3. AFTER the 'Please wait - The document is being created...' message disappears (right side of the screen) and BEFORE the .pdf is displayed focus the textarea (left side of the screen) with the mouse (Note: This is the time when the <embed> tag is created / the .pdf download starts / .pdf viewer opens)
4. Although the keyboard-cursor blinks inside the textarea it is not possible to move it around (or enter characters) by using the keyboard
Actual Results:  
Textarea seems to loose focus although the keyboard-cursor blinks inside the textarea. No characters can be entered and the keyboard-cursor can't be moved with the keyboard.

Expected Results:  
It should be possible to move around the cursor with the keyboard arrow keys or enter characters.

This bug only occurs if the textarea gets focused during the download of the .pdf. If the user doesn't focus the textarea during the download of the .pdf this bug does not happen.

This bug only happens in Firefox 3.6 (it works correct in IE 7 / IE 8 / Chrome / Safari / Opera / Firefox 3.0)

Comment 1

[Daniel Kirsch]

IMHO a duplicate of bug 550709

Comment 2

[Kevin Brosnan]

Would you check to see if the mozilla-central build from the 10th does not show the problem and a build from the 11th does display the problem. Builds for different platforms end up in different folders so I can't link directly to the folder.

ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/nightly/2009/06/

Comment 3

[Suseelan B Sarin]

Facing a similar issue with 4.0b12. I clicked a link from gmail (ftp://ftp.pwg.org/pub/pwg/cloud/minutes/cloud-concall-minutes-20110221.pdf) which opened in another tab. However, when I opened a new tab, I could not type anything to address bar. In fact, when the pdf was loading, I was typing an address and after typing "ww", it stopped taking i/p. However, if I go to any other site (say, using google search box or by clicking feedback link) the address bar starts working again.

Comment 4

[Mark Banner (:standard8)]

Adobe Acrobat Reader is no longer supported and things are likely to have changed a lot. Hence closing this out. If it is still an issue in the latest Firefox, please feel free to re-open and update us on the status.