Scott Minster Reporter
	Description • 21 years ago

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040208
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040208

When closing a tab, another is correctly selected.  However, the focus is
sometimes misplaced.  For example, the focus may be placed in the URL bar.  In
that case, pressing Ctrl+W to close the newly selected tab doesn't close the
tab, but instead deletes the contents of the URL bar.  Or, pressing space to
scroll down in the newly selected tab causes a space to be appended to the URL
(you get the idea).  I have also seen the focus being given (invisibly, as there
is not visible clue this is being done) to a bookmark in the Personal Toolbar
Folder.  This happens as described in the steps to reproduce.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open a tab to a web page with a lot of text (so you can scroll down)
2. Right click on a bookmark in the personal toolbar folder and select "open in
new tab".
3. Once the new tab has loaded, close it.
4. Press space in the previous tab.  Instead of scrolling down, the bookmark
from step 2 is loaded.

Actual Results:  
The bookmark from step 2 is loaded.

Expected Results:  
The previous tab should have scrolled down.

	Jesiah S
	Comment 1 • 20 years ago

I see this on LInux 2004042605

	Mr. Moose
	Comment 2 • 20 years ago

I filed a bug report:  251877

that turns out a duplicate of this bug.  I've documented a slightly different
behavior to this as for me, this bug isn't always reproducible, but only on some
websites.  In a single window at the same time, I can have tabs from site#1 that
work fine and have tabs from site#2 where focus is a problem.  Just a FYI.

	t t
	Comment 3 • 19 years ago

what i see in linux running 1.03, 1.04, and 1.05 is very frequent.  the focus goes
to the previous tab.

	Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)
	Comment 4 • 19 years ago

WFM FF1.5 windows
Linux users - does this now WFY?

	Scott Minster Reporter
	Comment 5 • 19 years ago

I can reproduce this using Mozilla 1.7.12 on Gentoo Linux, but not with FireFox (1.0.7, Gentoo Linux).  I'm not sure I've ever seen this type of problem in FF.

	Mr. Moose
	Comment 6 • 19 years ago

this was a mozilla only bug for me

	u294409
	Comment 7 • 17 years ago

Cannot reproduce on Firefox 3/Trunk. [Space] scrolls page down.

Please close as WORKSFORME or INVALID.

	Adam Kowalczyk
	Comment 8 • 17 years ago

This bug is not about Firefox, it's about Mozilla Suite/SeaMonkey. It shouldn't have been resolved based on comment #7.

	u294409
	Comment 9 • 17 years ago

OMG... SeaMonkey should have dropped support - it stops Firefox development and releases.

	Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)
	Comment 10 • 17 years ago

Valerio, Andrew, do you see this? (UNCO after 4 years is hot useful)

	Andrew Schultz
	Comment 11 • 17 years ago

Jakub, my memory must be failing -- which firefox release was it that was stopped by SeaMonkey?

anyway, I do see this bug with seamonkey branch as well as 2008-02-03-trunk

	u294409
	Comment 12 • 17 years ago

This is stopping Firefox releases.

Four yrs old bug... I am sure it will not be fixed.

	Valerio Messina
	Comment 13 • 17 years ago

reproduced only once on:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; it-IT; rv:1.8.1.12) Gecko/20080201 SeaMonkey/1.1.8

	Valerio Messina
	Comment 14 • 17 years ago

selecting:
Edit, Preferences, Tabbed Browsing, Switch to new tabs opened from links,
then close Seamonkey, start it again, happen always.
Deselecting that check box, close and restart Seamonkey, happen rarely.

	Andrew Hagen
	Comment 15 • 15 years ago

Testcase is in comment 1 and comment 14. 

In Windows, this bug appears. Instead of opening the tab, though, spacebar does nothing. Instead of the spacebar scrolling page down, it does not work. 


Nominating for blocker status.

	Ian Neal
	Comment 16 • 15 years ago

Not blocking for beta 1 but should probably block release. Please renominate.

	Robert Kaiser
	Comment 17 • 15 years ago

We can afford to ship 2.0 without this, so not blocking, but if a fix comes up, we'd want to have it in.

	Michal 'hramrach' Suchanek
	Comment 18 • 15 years ago

I can see this in Firefox 3.5 on Linux. Sometimes while mass-killing tabs with Ctrl-W tabs stop closing and I have to click the content to close the tab.

Perhaps related to bug 337215