Closed Bug 644339 Opened 13 years ago Closed 13 years ago

Focus/blur with window.open not working

Categories

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Product:
Firefox
Component:
General
Platform:
x86
Windows 7
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 634067

People

(Reporter: malet.bertrand, Unassigned)

Details

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:2.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:2.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0

When opening a new window in javascript with window.open you can't change the new window focus with focus() or blur().

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<body>
<script type="text/javascript">
function showPopup()
{
  var popup = window.open(
    "http://www.mozilla.com",
    "mozWin",
    "menubar=yes,location=yes,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,status=yes"
  );
  
  popup.blur();
  window.focus();
}
</script>
<a href="#" onclick="showPopup();">ouvrir popup</a>
</body>
</html>
Actual Results:  
New window stay with focus

Expected Results:  
New window should loose focus
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 13 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
not exactly a dupe but rather this is intended by that bug. marking as dupe of bug 634067
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