69421 - using a bookmark should focus content area (from location bar, etc)

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 62765

(SeaMonkey :: Location Bar, defect, P2)

Description

[Ben Bucksch (:BenB)]

Reproduce:
1. Open New Browser Window
2. Load any webpage through bookmarks
3. Try any of
 - Page Up/Down
 - Cursor Up/Down (for scrolling up/down)

Actual result:
Only (sometimes weird) caret movements in the urlbar

Expected result:
Page in the canvas (viewport) scolls/moves.

Additional Comments:
If you load a page in step 2 by typing the URL in the URLbar and hitting return,
everything is fine, i.e. the expected result happens. I guess, the canvas is
focused after loading a URL "by hand".

4.x (at least in the Unix flavor) works "as expected", but note that it doesn't
focus the canvas - the urlbar has still the focus and typing and cursor
left/right apply to the urlbar. I know that this is somewhat odd technically,
but it makes some sense to the user, I think - up/down makes no sense in a
single-line text edit field, so the key event is applied to something more senseful.

In any case, this behaviour of 4.x makes a lot of sense at least for text
<INPUT> fields in web pages - technically, the widget can't do anything
meaningful with the event and it "bubbles up" (I think) - the result is what the
user most likely intended. Don't know, if that is really related to this bug.

Comment 1

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

spam: moving to URL Bar component.

Comment 2

[Jesse Ruderman]

Changing summary from "URLbar grabs navigation" to "using a bookmark should 
focus content area (from location bar, etc)".  Note that this might not apply 
to javascript: bookmarks.

See also bug 53549, "open link in new window should focus content, not location 
bar", and bug 37638, "URL bar is given focus by default".

Comment 3

[Blake Ross]

Taking...

Comment 4

[Jesse Ruderman]

I think this is a dup of bug 62765.  Blake, do you want to take that bug too?

Comment 5

[Blake Ross]

Seems like a dup to me, thanks.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 62765 ***

Comment 6

[timeless]

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