detect focus on browser address bar?

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Published on 2010-03-23T15:11:04Z Indexed on 2010/03/23 15:13 UTC
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Is there a way to detect when focus has been put onto the address-bar or the browser-search-bar?

I ask because I am trying to keep focus on one element in my document, but adding a blur() listener to that element works too well in safari mac -- you can't put focus on the address-bar!

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