mouse cursor interfers with location bar searches

[Jerome Lacoste]

Binary package hint: firefox-3.0

Steps to reproduce
1. place the mouse cursor below the search bar (e.g. in the middle of the browser window)
2. make the cursor enter the location bar with the keyboard (CTRL+L)
3. type the first letters of the site you're planning to go to (e.g. launchpad.net)
4. the location bar pops up with some results

Expected results
no result is selected, allowing to press the down key to select the first entry, usually a link to the root of the web site

Current results
if search result pop up appears below the mouse cursor, the element located under the mouse cursor is selected. This makes it hard to select the first element.

This story used to work in FF 2.0.

This issue is probably an upstream's issue. Other example of reports on the internet: http://groups.google.com/group/mozilla.feedback.firefox.prerelease/browse_thread/thread/4fdfa74a2ef9c190/aa364c4d003839d8

[Jerome Lacoste (jerome-lacoste)]

Just to add a note: the issue #417053 linked from bugzilla.mozilla.org isn't exactly the problem I am reporting.

And I retested my problem. I can only reproduce it when typing a single character. If I type a second character in the location bar, the selection disappears.

[Andreas Moog (ampelbein)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This works for me with Firefox 3.0.1 in Intrepid. Can you confirm if this still is an issue for you?

[Jerome Lacoste (jerome-lacoste)]

As explained earlier, b.m.o #417053 isn't exactly the same issue.

[Jerome Lacoste (jerome-lacoste)]

Andreas, yes the issue is fixed with 3.0.1 (Gecko/2008072820 Firefox/3.0.1). You can close this one.

[Andreas Moog (ampelbein)]

This bug report is being closed due to your last comment regarding this being fixed with an update. For future reference you can manage the status of your own bugs by clicking on the current status in the yellow line and then choosing a new status in the revealed drop down box. You can learn more about bug statuses at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Status . Thank you again for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Feel free to submit any future bugs you may find.