643990 - Removing or undoing removal of an add-on breaks focus and tabbing

Status: RESOLVED INACTIVE

(Toolkit :: Add-ons Manager, defect)

Description

[James Teh [:Jamie]]

Str:
0. Ensure that at least 2 extensions are installed.
1. Open the Add-ons Manager and select Extensions.
2. Select an extension.
3. Press the Remove button for the selected extension.
Expected: Focus should be moved somewhere else, probably to the selected list item or the Undo button.
Actual: Focus is lost.
4. Press tab a few times.
Expected: Focus should move.
Actual: Nothing happens.
5. Restore focus to the selected extension by clicking on it with the mouse.
6. Press the Undo button for the selected extension to undo the removal.
Expected: Focus should be moved somewhere else, probably to the selected list item or the Remove button.
Actual: Focus is lost.
7. Press tab a few times.
Expected: Focus should move.
Actual: Nothing happens.

Strangely, this works:
8. Select an extension.
9. Click the Remove button with the mouse for an extension which is *not* selected. (This can't be done with the keyboard because the Remove button is not in the tab order for unselected extensions.)
Result: Focus correctly moves to the list item for the extension just removed.

This is incredibly annoying for keyboard only users, as the only solution for these users is to close and re-open the Add-ons Manager.

Comment 1

[James Teh [:Jamie]]

Oops. Forgot to note that this occurs in Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:2.0b13pre) Gecko/20110322 Firefox/4.0b13pre

Comment 2

[James Teh [:Jamie]]

Problem doesn't occur when an extension is removed via the context menu.

Comment 3

[Marco Zehe (:MarcoZ)]

This is definitely confirmed! Focus should either move to the selected list item, or to the newly shown/created Undo button. But definitely not get lost! Thanks Jamie!

Comment 4

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+1]]

Dave, can we do something about for the next .x release?

Comment 5

[Mike Beltzner [:beltzner, not reading bugmail]]

Doesn't block branch, should fix on trunk!

Comment 6

[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.