[Bug 657537] Re: address bar traps wm key bindings while results are visible

[Chris Coulson]

This isn't really a bug in Firefox, this is just the way that any menu
or drop-down works in X. Menus and other drop downs need to grab the
keyboard and mouse so that all events are routed to that particular
window (so that it knows when the user clicks outside the window, so it
can automatically close the menu).

X requires that a window must have focus in order to receive keyboard or
mouse events, which means that when you have a menu or popup open, no
other windows or applications (including those which have a passive grab
on a set of keys, like the window manager) can receive keyboard events.

If anything, this is a limitation in the X protocol, but it isn't a bug
in Firefox

** Changed in: firefox (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Invalid

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address bar traps wm key bindings while results are visible
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/657537
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