209602 - Page Reload Causes Browser Popup

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[BatemanB]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030529
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030529

When using a site that has a periodic page reload, a minimized browser will come
to the foreground automatically when the reload begins. Previous versions
allowed pages to actively reload while minimized.
Also, when reload begins, any current tab you're working in (or other Mozilla
window) will lose its "place" and you will have to click again to resume
inputting text.
Note: This problem does not occur when the window is not minimized. Meaning a
browser window, not the foreground window, will refresh without becoming the
foreground window.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Minimize browser.
2. Wait for page reload.
3. Watch the reload.

Actual Results:  
The window came to the foreground.

Expected Results:  
Pages should have reloaded while the window continued to be minimized.

Comment 1

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

Got a testcase page?

Comment 2

[Tim Powell]

Attachment: testcase - Reloads every 10 seconds using meta refresh

Comment 3

[Tim Powell]

Works for me. I'm not seeing any problem with windows stealing focus using the
Firefox 0.8 release and the testcase I just attached opened in a new tab and
with window minimized. This is on Windows 2000. I also don't see the problem
with 1.6 Mozilla release on WinXP. Reporter, you might try a more recent
release. Please reopen if you have a better testcase. Thanks!

I suspect this may be caused by either Java applets on the page that is being
reloaded (they tend to steal focus way more than I think they should) or a page
with window.focus() in the onload handler. I'm not sure what the proper behavior
would be in those cases.