Closed Bug 585306 Opened 14 years ago Closed 11 months ago

switching to about:config tab does not switch focus

Categories

(Thunderbird :: Toolbars and Tabs, defect)

x86
Windows Vista
defect

Tracking

(Not tracked)

RESOLVED WORKSFORME

People

(Reporter: wsmwk, Unassigned)

Details

1. open about:config in a tab via some means (eg viewabout add-on)
2. click a preference
3. switch back to message folder and single click a message
4. ctrl+pgdn or click about:config tab switch tabs
5. hit enter

expected: preference has focus
actual: about:config does not have focus. a message from other tab is opened.

this doesn't happen in firefox. preference has focus
I can still produce this using current trunk. perhaps asuth the tab-master has advice.

(FTR, I did not try safe mode)
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Ever confirmed: true
I don't think we are doing anything to try and force focus into the new tab in tabmail proper.  (The mail tab types do a lot of custom focus tracking amongst themselves, however.)

It looks like we just set the selectedIndex on the tabBox and hope it takes care of stuff for us.  Perhaps it is taking care of things for us for browser frames, but because about:config is presumably XUL, nothing happens for free?

Alternatively, are you sure we don't screw up for content pages too, Wayne?
Severity: minor → S4

This is wfm on Daily 115.0a1 (2023-05-15) (64-bit), Win10. Already works in 102, too.

(In reply to Wayne Mery (:wsmwk) from comment #0)

  1. open about:config in a tab via some means (eg viewabout add-on)
  2. click a preference

In about:config, you can now only focus the action button of each pref.

  1. switch back to message folder and single click a message
  2. ctrl+pgdn or click about:config tab switch tabs

Note bug 1778080 (I'm still not sure if that's a bug or a finally corrected feature) which traps Ctrl+Page down inside lists. But Ctrl+Tab works.

  1. hit enter

expected: preference has focus
actual: about:config does not have focus. a message from other tab is opened.

this doesn't happen in firefox. preference has focus

Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 11 months ago
Resolution: --- → WORKSFORME
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