*** Original post on bio 506 at 2010-09-15 09:17:00 UTC *** Steps to reproduce: * Open Emoticon tab on Options dialog * Change to Messagestyle tab * Pressing up/down keys changes selection in Emoticon dropdown on other tab, since it didn't loose focus. Expected behaviour: Loose focus when changing away from tab. Fix: Focus the Messagestyle dropdown when changing to the Messagestyle tab and thereby replacing the current focus.

*** Original post on bio 506 at 2010-09-15 21:28:25 UTC *** This is a platform bug. I haven't found anything related in BMO though. It's a general problem with cycling backwards through tabs/tabpanels in a tabbox. commandDispatcher.advanceFocusIntoSubtree() seems to fail here in such a case: http://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/toolkit/content/widgets/tabbox.xml#480

*** Original post on bio 506 at 2010-09-20 21:05:49 UTC *** Unassigning from myself, waiting for Florian's toolkit patch to be accepted.

*** Original post on bio 506 at 2011-03-30 13:56:30 UTC *** Maybe your patch can land now that Firefox 4 is out the door?

*** Original post on bio 506 at 2011-11-03 09:45:20 UTC *** My patch for https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=596759 has landed for Firefox 5, so this bug should be fixed in Instantbird 1.1. Can you still reproduce it?

*** Original post on bio 506 at 2011-11-03 12:45:13 UTC *** I can't reproduce anymore. Setting to RESOLVED FIXED.