Problem: When entering information into a plain html form with a combo box, if the combo box has too many entries to display on the screen (eg a combo box listing the 50 states of USA) and you have to click 'More' to see the rest, and choose one from these (eg to pick 'Utah'), then netscape loses the input focus and you cannot enter more information into the form with the keyboard (though you can move the cursor to different areas of the form with the mouse). However, the netscape window is highlighted, as if it had the focus. You have to click on another application window (eg 'xterm') then click back on netscape to get the input focus back to netscape to enter information in the form with the keyboard. This behavior was observed using Gnome/Enlightenment and icewm (without gnome). Oddly, netscape works properly in kde. I am using all the latest packages per the RedHat 6.1 errata (including netscape 4.70-1 and all gnome packages). My feeling is that it is not netscape since netscape works fine in kde, but instead the window managers in question and/or X when used in conjunction with the window managers.
no, this is a longstanding netscape bug that will likely not get fixed. KDE has some workarounds. The simple solution is to minimize and then restore netscape. Focus will be returned.