1696048 - window.opener.document.location='foo.bar' causes window to lose focus

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1694927

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

Description

[Olivier Bettens]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/78.0

Steps to reproduce:

in a popup window opened by window.open(), use window.opener.document.location="myLocation"

Actual results:

the popup window loses focus

Expected results:

the popup window should keep focus
(the comportement the behavior has changed since version 86 beta)

Comment 1

[Olivier Bettens]

(In reply to Olivier Bettens from comment #0)

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/78.0

Steps to reproduce:

in a popup window opened by window.open(), use window.opener.document.location="myLocation"

Actual results:

the popup window loses focus

Expected results:

the popup window should keep focus
(the behavior has changed, probably since version 86 beta)

Comment 2

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

The Bugbug bot thinks this bug should belong to the 'Core::DOM: Core & HTML' component, and is moving the bug to that component. Please revert this change in case you think the bot is wrong.

Comment 3

[Edgar Chen [:edgar]]

Attachment: child.html

Comment 4

[Edgar Chen [:edgar]]

Attachment: test.html

Comment 5

[Edgar Chen [:edgar]]

Bug 1694927 is landed. Olivier, do you still encounter this issue on today's Nightly (20210303215027)?

Comment 6

[Olivier Bettens]

(In reply to Edgar Chen [:edgar] from comment #5)

Bug 1694927 is landed. Olivier, do you still encounter this issue on today's Nightly (20210303215027)?

No, it's fixed! tested on nightly 88.0a1 (2021-03-04)
Thanks a lot.

Comment 7

[Edgar Chen [:edgar]]

Close as a duplicate of bug 1694927.
Thanks for verifying, Olivier!