151316 - Child window opens behind parent on window.open()

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 108394

(Core :: DOM: Core & HTML, defect)

Description

[andy]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.1a) Gecko/20020611
BuildID:    2002061104

when typing the following url in the url box, and hitting enter

javascript:window.open('http://car-part.com');document.href=document.location;

a new window pops up in the background, instead of as the frontmost, active window


in netscape 4.79, and explorer, that url will cause a new window to come up in
front, as the active window.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.put javascript:window.open('http://car-part.com');document.href=document.location;
 in the url box
2.
3.

Comment 1

[Phil Schwartau]

Browser, not engine. 

Confirming report using today's Mozilla trunk binary on WinNT. 
Exactly as the reporter states: the child window opens behind
the parent. 

Compare: in IE6, the child window opens in front. 
I'm going to send this one to danm, and the DOM Level 0 component.
cc'ing jst. 

[e-mail]: the javascript:URL you have given is
javascript:window.open('http://car-part.com');document.href=document.location;

But actually, just the first half of that is all we need to see 
the bug, right? Just the window.open() does it for me -

danm: sorry if this is a known issue

Comment 2

[Jesse Ruderman]

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