569254 - Carat jumps to a different form field

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 125282

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[osx.leopard]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.3) Gecko/20100423 Ubuntu/10.04 (lucid) Firefox/3.6.3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.3) Gecko/20100423 Ubuntu/10.04 (lucid) Firefox/3.6.3

My homepage is Google. When I open Firefox, I sometime start typing an address into the URL bar immediately, while Google is still loading. Now obviously Google loads very quickly. When I am in the middle of typing in my address example: facebook.com), the carat jumps to Google's search bar on the main page. The result is that 'fa' is in my address bar, and 'cebook.com' is on my Google page.

I understand this might not be a bug (in fact, it might even be intentional), but it really is annoying. Who wants to Google every URL instead of directly going to it? I understand that the Firefox URL bar lets you search the internet, but some people just want to go to a website!

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Set homepage to Google
2. Load Firefox
3. Instantly start typing a URL into the address bar, while Google is loading
4. Notice where the carat goes while you are doing that >.>
Actual Results:  
Same thing I described.

Expected Results:  
The bug I am reporting.

Instead, Firefox should disallow webpages from stealing the carat from the address bar.

Comment 1

[Kevin Brosnan]

This will be fixed for Firefox 4