571582 - location bar does not work for navigation when nciku.com is opened in front tab

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 552285

(Firefox :: Address Bar, defect)

Description

[Szabolcs Horvát]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.2.3) Gecko/20100401 Firefox/3.6.3 ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.2.3) Gecko/20100401 Firefox/3.6.3 ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729)

The location bar doesn't work on nciku.com.  This is somewhat worrying because a webpage shouldn't be able to interfere with browser UI such as the location bar.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to http://www.nciku.com/ , wait for it to finish loading
2. Enter another address into the location bar, e.g. www.google.com .  Verify carefully that the text cursor is actually positioned in the location bar.
3. Press Enter
Actual Results:  
nciku.com reloads as if Enter had been pressed in the nciku search box.

Expected Results:  
The page with the address that was entered should load (e.g. google.com)

Tested on two different computers.

Comment 1

[Tyler Downer [He/Him]]

WFM with Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; en-US; rv:1.9.3a6pre) Gecko/20100611 Minefield/3.7a6pre
Try safe mode. http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Safe+mode

Comment 2

[Szabolcs Horvát]

It happens in safe mode as well.  You tested a different version than the current one that I have, perhaps that's why you found different result.

Comment 3

[Tyler Downer [He/Him]]

I'm testing with a nightly build.
Try a new profile. http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Managing+profiles.
I would think you were seeing something like bug 78414, but you say the location bar has focus, so that shouldn't be.

Comment 4

[Szabolcs Horvát]

Tried it, happens with a new profile as well.  As I have already mentioned, it was tested on two computers, it happened on both.

Look, the reason I reported this bug is that I thought that it might be important for the developers to know that webpages can interfere with 'private parts' of the browser, such as the location bar.  Perhaps this can be a security issue, perhaps not.  I have little knowledge about this.

If you need to make sure that it happens with the latest stable version, why don't you test it?  I think that from the information I provided it is quite clear that it is not only my computer that behaves this way.

Another potentially useful bit of info: if javascript is disabled, it doesn't happen.

Comment 5

[Tyler Downer [He/Him]]

@Szabolcs, I can not reproduce this, that is why I am asking you to try a few steps on your computer to make sure that there is nothing interfering with Firefox (eg. extensions). That's why I asked you to try safe mode and a new profile. I don't know your computer, so a new profile is the only sure way to make sure we are not getting something interfering. 
Can you please download a nightly, install it (You can install it alongside 3.6.3), and test there. ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/nightly/latest-trunk/

Comment 6

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.3a6pre) Gecko/20100611 Minefield/3.7a6pre

I can reproduce it. This is could be a known bug. I'll try to find out later.

Comment 7

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

Yeah, identified.