617774 - Location bar captures keyboard events intended for window manager

Status: RESOLVED INACTIVE

(Firefox :: Address Bar, defect)

Description

[Daniel Franke]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.12) Gecko/20101030 Iceweasel/3.6.12 (like Firefox/3.6.12)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.12) Gecko/20101030 Iceweasel/3.6.12 (like Firefox/3.6.12)

When the awesome bar's history drop-down widget is visible, it captures all keyboard events, including those intended for the window manager.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Click the location bar and begin typing, so that the history drop-down appears.
2. Press any key combination normally captured by the window manager, e.g. Alt-Tab.
Actual Results:  
The key combination gets interpreted by the location bar, or nothing happens.

Expected Results:  
The key combination gets interpreted by the window manager as usual.

Tested with xmonad and with Xfce.

Comment 1

[Abrahm Scully]

This problem happens for me on Ubuntu 10.04, 10.10, 11.04 with firefox 3.6, 4-betas, and 4.0. This problem is annoying when you are trying to type something into the url and want to press alt-tab to get to another window temporarily.

Comment 2

[BMO Automation]

Per policy at https://wiki.mozilla.org/Bug_Triage/Projects/Bug_Handling/Bug_Husbandry#Inactive_Bugs. If this bug is not an enhancement request or a bug not present in a supported release of Firefox, then it may be reopened.