Closed Bug 270749 Opened 20 years ago Closed 19 years ago

Gmail steals focus, even across desktops, even if minimized

Categories

(Firefox :: Shell Integration, defect)

x86
Linux
defect
Not set
normal

Tracking

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RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 272867

People

(Reporter: davidsboogs, Assigned: bugs)

References

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Details

(Whiteboard: [sg:fix])

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Konqueror/3.3; Linux; X11; i686; en_US) (KHTML, like Gecko)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041109 Firefox/1.0

I tend to leave a firefox window open to gmail, and randomly sometimes it will 
steal the focus from whatever I am doing, which is usually Not another firefox 
window, and is often on a different desktop.  It does not matter what state the 
window with the gmail tab is, even if it was minimized it suddenly becomes 
restored, and its desktop suddenly becomes the active one.  This happens 
anywhere from once every few days to once every few minutes. 

Reproducible: Sometimes
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Log into gmail 
2. Do other stuff 
3. wait 
 
Actual Results:  
 


SuSE Linux 9.1 with KDE 3.3.1
WFM (Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8a5) Gecko/20041123
Firefox/0.9.1+)
But also works with Firefox 1.0

Using KDE 3.3.1 and Slackware 10
The meta refresh that gmail is using causes the keyboard focus to be lost on the
current page, even if you are currently typing something in the current page.  I
don't think this is optimal functionality.  I think in tabbed mode, other tabs
shouldn't be able to steal focus no matter what.  Or atleast make that an option
in preferences/options.
probably related to #278527
happens in Windows too, probably any OS.
Is this still an issue in current trunk build?
http://ftp.scarlet.be/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/latest-trunk/
There are quite some focus stealing issues fixed, since this bug has been filed.
In the 1.0.7 version?  I haven't tried the 1.5 beta with this yet.  But, yes, it
is still a bug, the other tab steals focus.
Confirm, it is still a bug in the latest ver.
No, not in the 1.0.7 version, in the trunk version. You can download it with the
link I gave you.
Actually I did download the trunk version, and it still had the same bug.  I
tested it on WinXP by loading gmail in one tab, opening a new tab, loading up a
page with some java chat appelet, then sitting there for a little bit, and sure
enough when gmail refreshed the page to check for new mail, it stole the focus.
Blocks: 140346
Dup of bug 272867?  (Has easier steps to reproduce)
Whiteboard: [sg:fix]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 272867 ***
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 19 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
No longer blocks: 140346
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