623066 - Any page with focus() JavaScript steals focus from address bar

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 125282

(Firefox :: Address Bar, defect)

Description

[Chris]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13

When a page loads with JavaScript focus() on a control, FireFox allows focus to be taken away from the address bar. NO OTHER BROWSER behaves in this stupid manner. If the address bar has focus, the user is clearly trying to type in a URL to navigate to a new page. JavaScript firing focus() on a control should NEVER take focus away from the address bar, which should be an element independent of the actual web page being visited.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.load www.google.com
2.click in the address bar
3.begin typing new url
Actual Results:  
focus is taken away from address bar, goes to Google search textbox

Expected Results:  
focus should remain in address bar, allow for complete typing of url

What a dumb bit of code. I'm dumping Firefox for Chrome and Safari. They are faster and don't do dumb things like this. So frustrating.

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

already fixed (but not on Gecko 1.9.2)