150549 - [RFE]Popup dialogs are really annoying

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 28586

(Core :: DOM: UI Events & Focus Handling, enhancement)

Description

[Anatoly Kochergin]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.0.0+)
Gecko/20020605
BuildID:    2002060508

For example, then connection is timed out - blinking dialog pops up.
That is annoying - connection timeout is long enough in time. In most cases
users are not patient enough to wait while this happens. They do open new tabs
or windows, switch to another applications and so on. In windows such a pop up
dialog forses parent window to be on the top  - such a surprice for a user!

I think there are severeal possible solutions:
1. Implement a hidden (or in UI) pref to disable focus auto change
2. Doesn't rise popups - output info by HTML into the browser window (as IE does). 
3. Implement user friendly console (which opens in new tab and doesn't consume
focus, but changes tab color to red then an error happens) for error (timeout
and so on) messages.

Comment 1

[Stefan Borggraefe]

Bug 28586 is about your 2nd proposed solution (the best of the three in my
opinion). There was a lot of work going on to implement this recently. So my
vote is to dupe this bug.

Comment 2

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

This is a dupe of bug 28586

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 28586 ***

Comment 3

[Trix Supremo]

verifying dupe