Closed Bug 1181517 Opened 10 years ago Closed 10 years ago

Make in-content alert/confirm/prompt not steal focus

Categories

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Product:
Firefox
Component:
General
Version:
38 Branch
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 332195

People

(Reporter: Gijs, Unassigned)

Details

NB: for various reasons I expect we'll need to keep this behaviour for the in-content beforeunload dialogs. It seems this behaviour (switching tabs / stealing focus like this) is considered annoying by many users. I expect it would be nice if we could instead highlight / add an icon to the tab in some way that made it clear that it was demanding attention, rather than outright stealing focus.
I suspect that many people would rely on Google Calendar stealing focus with its alert to inform users of an upcoming event. Can we come up with a solution that doesn't steal focus but which still makes the alert visually obvious if you're in another tab?
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 10 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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