752932 - Dispatching key event failed in Firefox 12

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 749185

(Firefox :: Untriaged, defect)

Description

[Reza Owliaei]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/535.19 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/18.0.1025.168 Safari/535.19

Steps to reproduce:

I tried to dispatch a key event in FF 12 as below:
document.getElementById('name').dispatchEvent(new_event);​

Here you can find the full example:
http://jsfiddle.net/EshwS/4/

And here you can find more: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10471506/dispatching-a-key-event-in-firefox-12/10471790#comment13567904_10471790


Actual results:

Dispatched event failed to raise.


Expected results:

Event should dispatch as it works in FF 11 or less.