90919 - URL bar should not lose focus until (non-error) page starts to load

Status: NEW

(SeaMonkey :: Location Bar, enhancement, P4)

Description

[Benjamin Mucci]

When bad domain name is entered (http://www.wrongdomainduh.com) we've got an
Alert... Great. But after clicking OK the focus should return in the URL bar.

Comment 1

[Jesse Ruderman]

Some similar suggestions were made in bug 54321, but it's not clear what 54321
covers right now.

Comment 2

[Alec Flett]

reassign url bar bugs to new owner..

Comment 3

[Jerome Lacoste]

was going to report same bug. Should be corrected.

Comment 4

[Blake Ross]

Joe was dying to have these bugs. Who am I to say no?

Comment 5

[Jeremy M. Dolan]

Should be WONTFIXed in favor of the proper solution, 28586.

Comment 6

[Andrew Thompson]

*** Bug 116602 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 7

[Jesse Ruderman]

*** Bug 150124 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 8

[Jesse Ruderman]

*** Bug 132090 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 9

[Jesse Ruderman]

jmd: fixing bug 28586 would not make this bug obsolete.

Comment 10

[Janne Pasanen]

I don't know if this sholud be a new bug but anyway it's closely related to this
one:
There should be no alert box what so ever when a bad domain name is entered. Now
you have to close the alert box by pressing a key or by clicking the OK-button
with the mouse, which is totaly unnecessary navigation. If the error wolud be
displayed in the "browser window" (like when you get a forbidden message:
http://www.mozilla.org/nosuchfile.htm) and the focus would remain in the
URL-bar, you could faster correct the URL. 

Comment 11

[Niels Aufbau]

Yes, we should get rid of the host-not-found dialog (bug 28586).

Comment 12

[Jesse Ruderman]

See also bug 175701 (Chimera).

Comment 13

[Serge Gautherie (:sgautherie)]

[Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win95; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021212]

Another test case is when I want to do a Google search but forget to press
DownArrow (twice) before Enter:

1. Type, for example, "mozilla chimera" in the URL bar
2. Press Enter

R. (gets the Alert dialog, ...)

Comment 14

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

INVALID now that error page is shown (with retry capability) instead of error dialog?

Comment 15

[Matthew T (active 1999-2002)]

No, the existence of error pages has not solved this bug. If a domain cannot be found, for example, the most likely cause (as the error page itself states!) is that you've mistyped the address. If the address field always retained focus until a non-error page loaded, it would still be focused at this point, so you could correct the error. But it isn't, so you need to refocus it yourself.