125742 - View | Sidebar in Composer brings browser window to foreground

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(SeaMonkey :: Sidebar, defect)

Description

[Kathleen :Brade]

I opened a new Composer window.
I then chose View > Sidebar menu item.
The sidebar appeared and my browser window came to the front.

Expectation:  Browser window shouldn't move when show/hiding sidebar.

If it's relevant, the History tab is the active tab in the sidebar.
Also, note: subsequent toggles of that menu item don't move browser window but
creating a new composer window and doing the steps again do show the problem.

Comment 1

[sujay]

hmmm..I can't reproduce this...I'm using 2/14 build.

when I use F9 to open the sidebar, the browser window stays
in the background.

Comment 2

[Kathleen :Brade]

try making History the active tab?

Comment 3

[sujay]

confirming....only happens when you click on History in the sidebar or
History is the active sidebar tab.

Comment 4

[Samir Gehani]

Is this causing the first history tab (in the browser window) to gain focus?

<http://lxr.mozilla.org/seamonkey/source/xpfe/components/history/resources/history.js#105>
105 gHistoryOutliner.focus();

Over to history folks for a look.

Comment 5

[Blake Ross]

This will also happen for bookmarks, but I don't think just removing or
special-casing the focus calls is the correct fix.  All html sidebar panels
could do this, so I think sidebar needs to devise a way to deal with it in general.

Comment 6

[[not reading bugmail]]

This bug problem looks like it is related to the focus bug 122765, which should
be fixed in 3-7 builds.

Comment 7

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

WFM Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20060101 SeaMonkey/1.5a

Does anyone who tested this earlier still see this?

Comment 8

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

per comment 7