109925 - new windows opened by bookmarklet lose focus immediately

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 108394

(SeaMonkey :: UI Design, defect)

Description

[Basil Fritts]

I'm using the latest-trunk build on Windows 98 (2001111303-trunk). 

The javascript: pseudo-URL above is a bookmarklet (very similar to several that
I use) that is broken in this build. I would assume that this is a feature to
help with annoying pop-up ads, but it breaks my bookmarklets. 

To reproduce:
1. click on link above.

Expected behavior:
The new window should get the focus.

Actual behavior:
It doesn't. Current window grabs focus.

Comment 1

[Basil Fritts]

Hmm. It appears that when that code is called from the URL link above, it
behaves as expected, but when it is called from the bookmarklet in my Personal
Toolbar, it loses focus immediately. Maybe a pref issue?

Comment 2

[Basil Fritts]

It appears also that if simply paste the above pseudo-URL into the address bar,
I see the bad behavior.

Comment 3

[Tim Powell]

Looks like a focus problem. As reported by Basil, I see the window vanish when 
activated as a bookmarklet and also when pasting the link into the URL box and 
presssing enter. I highly doubt this is a JS engine problem. Perhaps bookmarks 
or XP apps? 

This problem has nothing to do with the size of the window, so changing summary 
from "new windows lose focus immediately if they are too small".

Comment 4

[Tim Powell]

Here's a trimmed down javascript URL that demonstrates the same problem:

javascript:void(window.open('','w','width=1024,height=700'))

This opens a new window that retains focus in Netscape 4 and IE as expected.

Comment 5

[Basil Fritts]

Also works fine in 0.9.5 and earlier.

Comment 6

[Phil Schwartau]

Browser, not engine. Reassigning to XP Apps: GUI Features.
cc'ing danm in case he knows the answer to this - 

Comment 7

[Blake Ross]

-> bryner

Comment 8

[Tim Powell]

Has anyone seen this on other platforms? Or is it Windows only? I even tried
adding an explicit call to focus the window, but that didn't work (probably
because of bug 57841). New windows should gain focus immediately anyway. Here's
what I tried:

javascript:var w=window.open('','w','width=800,height=600');w.focus();

Bug 53350 comment #18 also mentioned this javascript/bookmarklet problem, but I
don't think it's been broken for that long. Bug 71266 fixed something similar,
but sounds like the fix wasn't added to every call. Perhaps I'm misunderstanding
bug 71266 comment #29. Basil, do you know of a build where this worked?

Comment 9

[Tim Powell]

In case this is helpful to anyone, the new window stayed on top in 0.9.2 and
doesn't stay on top with 0.9.4. I know that's a large range and a long time ago...

Comment 10

[Basil Fritts]

Odd. I have a 0.9.5-release build in Windows 98, and the new window gains and
retains focus as expected. I will try a 0.9.4-release build and see if I can
reproduce that issue on my machine.

Comment 11

[Basil Fritts]

Tim, are you using a fresh profile? I installed 0.9.4 using the talkback .ZIP
file and it gains and retains focus as expected. For me, the unexpected behavior
of losing focus began in a nightly somewhere between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6.

Comment 12

[Tim Powell]

I was using a current profile with the 0.9.4 build. The mind boggles if that 
has some impact on whether it works or not. From what I recall, it was post 
0.9.5 that this started breaking.

Comment 13

[Basil Fritts]

In response to comment #8, I am not seeing this behavior in 0.9.7 linux. Thus,
it seems to be a Windows-only issue. If someone could test in Mac and confirm
platform specificity, that would be cool.

Comment 14

[Jesse Ruderman]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 108394 ***