978580 - 29a2: New private window urlbar without focus when "browser.newtab.url", "about:blank"

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox :: Private Browsing, defect)

Description

[persona]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; WOW64; rv:29.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/29.0 (Beta/Release)
Build ID: 20140302004001

Steps to reproduce:

Open a new private window via Shift-Ctrl-P


Actual results:

A new private window opens, but there is no focus. So I have to click into the adress bar to enter a URL.


Expected results:

After opening the new private window the cursor should stay in the address bar. If I open a new *standard* window I immediately can enter a new URL.

Comment 1

[YF (Yang)]

WFM on Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; rv:29.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/29.0 ID:20140302004001 CSet: 0f0ec964befb.

Please try Firefox Safe Mode or any more info.

Comment 2

[persona]

I found the cause of the issue: its the line
   user_pref("browser.newtab.url", "about:blank");
I found in my prefs.js. After deleting this line everything works as expected.

Comment 3

[YF (Yang)]

(In reply to persona from comment #2)
> I found the cause of the issue: its the line
>    user_pref("browser.newtab.url", "about:blank");
> I found in my prefs.js. After deleting this line everything works as
> expected.

I reproduce the on Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; rv:29.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/29.0 ID:20140303004002 CSet: d60e6d4024e7
Not reproducible with Firefox 28.0b7.

Comment 4

[(no longer active)]

This is a known issue, which we have decided not to be worth fixing.  We have a whitelist of URLs which we use to decide if we need to focus the location bar based on, and about:blank is not on that list.