631245 - Cannot enter into textbox with mouse click

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: Other, defect)

Description

[Ivan Ičin]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:2.0b11pre) Gecko/20110128 Firefox/4.0b11pre
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:2.0b11pre) Gecko/20110128 Firefox/4.0b11pre 

See steps to reproduce:

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. find the only textbox on page http://www.crhov.rs/?Opcija=1
2. try to click ti with mouse
Actual Results:  
Nothing happens

Expected Results:  
Cursor should enter the textbox.

Comment 1

[Ivan Ičin]

Just to note that it is regression and it doesn't work only in Firefox 4 (works in other versions and browsers)

Comment 2

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

> and it doesn't work only in Firefox 4 (works in other versions and browsers)

On Mac, it doesn't work for me in Firefox 3.6, Opera 11, Chrome 10 dev, or Safari 5.  As in, I don't have as single browser here in which it works.

And this is not surprising: the page has this wonderful code:

  <script>
	document.onselectstart=new Function('return false');
	function ds(e){return false;}
	function ra(){return true;}
	document.onmousedown=ds;document.onclick=ra;
  </script>

This cancels all mousedown events, and hence focus changes on mousedown, which is when focus changes happen, on Mac at least.

Do they not happen on mousedown on Windows?  Did we change when we change focus on Windows or something?

Comment 3

[Neil Deakin]

All browsers on all platforms except IE prevent focus when the mousedown event is canceled.

Comment 4

[Ivan Ičin]

Oops, you are right. This site worked when I was using it on Firfox 3.6, but the reason it doesn't work right now is that they have changed something on site.

I don't like to test in old Firefox as switching versions deletes all my history from builds starting couple weeks ago.

But it works on IE9, that's what I tested when I wrote post above.

Sorry for confusion.

Comment 5

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

> switching versions deletes all my history from builds starting couple weeks ago.

For what it's worth, you should be able to just use a separate profile for the old-version test to avoid this problem.

You can also recover the history if this does happen by copying places.sqlite.invalid (or whatever it gets named) over places.sqlite....

In any case, this sounds like tech evang.

Comment 6

[Ivan Ičin]

I've emailed them and now sites work, so I guess it should be resolved like fixed.