Clicking on the "search" tab in the sidebar should set focus to the textbox in the search panel so that the user doesn't have to click on the tab, and then click on the textbox. My guess is that this would be fixed by setting up the xul equivalent of a body-onload event to do document.getElementById("sidebar- search-text").focus. This bug depends on: bug 50223 Clicking on Sidebar tab should set focus to sidebar page or widget This bug probably also depends these bugs, which are present at least for html dom: bug 41813 [Linux, normal] and bug 50665 [Windows, enhancement] textbox.focus() shouldn't grab focus from other mozilla windows I need to do this for my "calculator" panel as well (http://www.cs.hmc.edu/~jruderma/js/calc/).

[This bug doesn't depend on the textbox.focus bugs. They would make the fixing of this bug slightly more annoying, but they certainly aren't stopping it from being fixed.]

Netscape Nav triage team: this is a Netscape beta stopper.

fix checked in r=law sr=ben

erik@mint.com said on bug 9086 that new Navigator windows didn't focus anything, and it turned out that his sidebar was collapsed and the Search textbox was grabbing focus away from the first page opened in each new window. I hope bug 41813, bug 50665, and bug 50223 get fixed soon :)

The fix for bug 41813 (textbox.focus() shouldn't steal focus from other windows) didn't fix the sidebar case, so I filed bug 76621.

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