782861 - Focus call fails but only with new tabs

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 766990

(Firefox :: Untriaged, defect)

Description

[FyreUser]

Attachment: page.htm

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:14.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/14.0.1
Build ID: 20120713134347

Steps to reproduce:

I have disabled all extensions and am still having this problem, os=win7home.
I have a custom home page, and of course one element of that is a text field search box.
I bring focus to this field by calling focus() against this element ID.



Actual results:

I stated having a problem with FF14, same page with prior versions did not have this problem.
When "browser.newtab.url" is set to this page, and I click a new tab, focus remains in the awesome bar.



Expected results:

However, if I double click the page.htm file from explorer, or say file open page.htm, focus IS properly brought to the field.
Why does FF14 not change focus when the page is opened via the new tab button, but does change focus when the same page is loaded via other methods?