GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 143928
Opening new tab (Ctrl-t) gives focus to gtkmozembed and not the URL-entry field as it should.
Last modified: 2004-12-22 21:47:04 UTC
When you type Ctrl-t most users expect the url-field to be focused, galeon however gives focus to the gtkmozembed. I don't know if this is done intentionally to use with the "type ahead" (or what they call the type to jump to a link) thing, or by accident. But since typing in the url-field is one of the most common tasks when browsing using the keyboard, I think this should be fixed. I first thought this was the bug http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=72125, but that seems to only be tabs in the background. I talk about the active tab (window) taking focus from the URL-filed.
This is just another manifestation of bug 72125 *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 72125 ***
Well yes I guess the gtkmozembed steal focus problem is the same, the workarounds for 72125 is specific for tabs in the background. So it might be possible to workaround bug 72125 without solving this issue, that is why I posted this as a separate bug. I might thing a dependecy might be ok, but marking the bug a dupelicate might lead to the bug beeing forgotten if the workarounds for 72125 gets applied and that bug is closed.