Location bar not focused when creating a new tab

[Amos Brocco]

After creating a new tab (using the File->New tab option or using CTRL+T) the
focus should go to the location bar instead of
the default page. In Firefox things works correctly and are (from my point of
view) more natural: when browsing a page I can
simply press CTRL+T to open a new tab and then start typing the address of the
page I want to visit; in epiphany currently wheb I press CTRL+T and the new
tab appears, if I dont manually select the location text box (or press CTRL+L) I
just start what seems to be a search in the default page.

using: epiphany-browser 1.6.1-0ubuntu2 on hoary

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thanks for your bug. Do you use an empty start page or a webpage? The focus for
a webpage goes to the page and not the bar because you can use the keyboard for
the navigation.

[Amos Brocco (mriya3)]

I have no default page (blank page)

I think that the natural behaviour should be to focus the address bar, because
if I press CTRL+T or select File->New tab what I'm supposed to do is to visit a
new site by entering it's URL. I understand that the current behaviour makes
sense if a default page is set, but if I choose to use a blank page as default I
think that it's more correct to have the address bar focused, as there is no
page to navigate with the keyboard. Also when starting epiphany, if no default
page is set, the focus should go to the address bar.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

This is fixed with GNOME 2.12 and the packages for Ubuntu 5.10.