User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8a) Gecko/20040506 Firefox/0.8.0+ Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8a) Gecko/20040506 Firefox/0.8.0+ When I close an open sidebar with a keyboard command (like Cmd-B for bookmarks or Cmd-shift-H for history), Firefox keyboard accessibility goes into a bad state. Or more specically, basically no keyboard control works anymore. I can't do any application commands or tabbing/typing navigation, nothing works, the app does not respond. The only thing that I have found that works is to Cmd-~ repeatedly to toggle through any open windows (including a weird invisible window) until I'm back to the first window. Then after doing that, keyboard accessibility works again. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Open a sidebar (bookmarks or history). 2. Close the sidebar with the appropriate key command. 3. Try to do anything else with your keyboard now. Actual Results: keyboard control is ineffectual Expected Results: keyboard control should still work

WFM. - Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040717 Firefox/0.9.1+ - Microsoft Windows 2000 Pro 5.00.2195 SP4

I can repro this on Mac (2004072711-0.9) but not on linux (2004072908-0.9), perhaps specific to Mac firefox? -> accessibility

I can reproduce this bug in Linux (Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i586; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041103 Firefox/1.0RC2, and the latest nightly built trunk of firefox). When the sidebar is closed the focus still seems to remain in the sidebar and the currently visible tab next to the sidebar has lost the focus. It doesn't matter if the sidebar is closed with the mouse or with the keyboard. Keyboard control inside the visible tab is always ineffectual after closing the sidebar. I'll have to use the mouse and click somewhere inside of the page to give it the focus again.

This bug is not fixed yet. I still can reproduce loosing focus on Linux *and Windows* with the latest nightly built trunk of ff.

Firefox trunk build on linux (gtk2), it works fine. closing the sidebar gives focus to the web page and alt-f opens the file menu correctly. Can anyone reproduce this on latest trunk builds and post exact reproducable steps?

Please open at least a webpage in one tab. Then open a sidebar and middle click on a link inside of the sidebar to open a new tab. Then close the sidebar and go back to the other tab. It has lost the focus and you cannot scroll with the keyboard - on Windows, Linux and likely on the Mac.

Agree with last comment: Alt+F will work whether the content area has focus or not. The best way to see if the content area has focus is to check whether arrow keys scroll the page.

I can restore the focus with Alt+F. But it is still an annoying bug that the tab loses focus at all.

cnn.com is open open history open a page in a new tab from history close history webpage has focus switch to cnn.com tab indeed, focus is in the old document. That is reproducable steps :)

Cool, this is indeed WFM with Doron's steps in a build from 2/21/05

this also w4m using recent trunk ffox bits on mac.

What do you mean with w4m? Can you reproduce the bug or can you not reproduce the bug? This bug is still reproducable on every release and the latest trunks of ff and is not fixed/resolved and never was.

Then post exact steps to reproduce.

You already posted reproducible steps in your comment (comment #9). What's the problem? I will quote these steps again, with additional comments to make sure they are executed correctly. 1. cnn.com is open 2. open history 3. open a page in a new tab from history (USING THE MIDDLE MOUSE BUTTON) 4. close history 5. webpage has focus 6. switch to cnn.com tab indeed, focus is in the old document. That is reproducable steps :) As you know, the effect of this bug is that you cannot scroll using the keyboard in the webpage (here cnn.com). These steps can still be used to reproduce the bug, even in the latest "nightly trunks".

indeed, my steps still work, so this bug shouldn't have been closed. Note you should switch tabs using ctrl-pageup/pagedown, as clicking on a tab gives it focus.

This bug is fixed now in the latest trunk of ff from March 10, 2005. Perfect :-)

reporter: can you verify?

Works for me. Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050317 Firefox/1.0+

The general bug described in the initial bug report is now fixed. Comment #9 and #14 are new steps that are a different problem than the original general problem that was fixed. Reporter or Doron, if a combination of using history, the middle mouse button to open documents in a new tab, and tab switch causes a problem, then that should be filed as a separate bug. I suggest the title "Opening history in new tab can lead to broken focus"