629412 - A page should not be allowed to steal the focus from other elements

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core :: DOM: UI Events & Focus Handling, defect)

Description

[Vincent Lefevre]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.16) Gecko/20110107 Iceweasel/3.5.16 (like Firefox/3.5.16)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.16) Gecko/20110107 Iceweasel/3.5.16 (like Firefox/3.5.16)

When opening an identi.ca page (e.g. see above URL), the page steals the focus from other elements once it has been entirely loaded.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open http://identi.ca/ (note: an account may be needed to get the "What's up" text input.
2. Click in the location bar or the search bar, and start typing something.
Actual Results:  
Once the page is loaded, what the user types goes to the "What's up" text input, and if the user types [Enter], the text is posted to identi.ca.

Expected Results:  
The focus should not be stolen from the address or search bar.

Since the text may become public (e.g. with identi.ca), this can be a security/privacy problem. Thus setting the severity to major.

Comment 1

[Vincent Lefevre]

Note: Chromium doesn't seem to have this problem.

Comment 2

[Olli Pettay [:smaug][[e-mail]]]

You could try a little bit newer version of Firefox. 3.5 was released close to
2 years ago.

Focus handling was rewritten for 3.6, and some issues which sound like this bug
have been fixed for FF 4.
Try http://nightly.mozilla.org/

Comment 3

[John Drinkwater (:beta)]

This does not happen for me in Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:2.0b10pre) Gecko/20110126 Firefox/4.0b10pre

Comment 4

[Vincent Lefevre]

(In reply to comment #2)
> You could try a little bit newer version of Firefox. 3.5 was released close to
> 2 years ago.

Well, Mozilla doesn't support x86_64 for FF 3.x, so that I have to use Debian's Iceweasel, whose last version is 3.5.

I confirm that I cannot reproduce the problem with a FF 4 nightly.

Since the fault seems to be Debian's old FF version, I've reported a bug against Debian: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=611354

Comment 5

[Olli Pettay [:smaug][[e-mail]]]

Marking this FIXED

Comment 6

[Vincent Lefevre]

I have the same problem with:

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20110109 Iceweasel/3.6.13 (like Firefox/3.6.13)

(from Debian experimental). So, the fix probably concerns FF 4 only.

Comment 7

[Olli Pettay [:smaug][[e-mail]]]

We mark bugs fixed if they are fixed on trunk.
And usually it would be good to indicate which patch fixed the bug, but
I haven't had time to check that yet.