1223294 - Firefox window doesn't always get the focus back when containing flash application.

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Core Graveyard :: Plug-ins, defect)

Description

[mohamed.bgb]

Attachment: ff_test_case.png

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/46.0.2490.80 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce:

Issue reproducible on FF 41 & 42 branches.
Sample flex application:
http://demo.borland.com/flex/SilkTest13.0/3.5/Flex3TestApp_withAutomation/Flex3TestApp.html

1) Load a sample Flex application in a Firefox window;
 a) On the left side select "Visual Components/Text Controls/TextInput"
 b) Focus the first TextInput (as shown in the attached png).
2) Focus another application by clicking or Alt+Tab (any window other than Firefox);
3) Focus back Firefox by clicking or Alt+Tab;


Actual results:

The Flex application doesn't get the focus.
/!\ This work one time out of two, so the first time it will be KO, then OK, then KO...


Expected results:

Firefox window should always get the focus.

Comment 1

[mohamed.bgb]

Please be informed that this look similar to 292314 & 5540390.

Comment 2

[BMO Automation]

Resolving as wont fix, plugin support deprecated in Firefox 85.