218399 - window.open called with existing window name when in other tab opens a new window

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 121377

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

Description

[Mattias Wadman]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5b) Gecko/20030827
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5b) Gecko/20030827

When calling window.open with a name of an existing window to get a reference to
it, you will get a new window insted if the window with that name has another
tab selected.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Go to URL, now you will get a new window with two buttons
2.Create a new tab in the open.html window and make it the active one
3.Press "Get reference to top window"
Actual Results:  
window.open creates a new window

Expected Results:  
window.open should return a reference to the window named "top_window"

To make window.open return a reference to the "top_window" window you need to
make sure its the active tab in its browser window.

Comment 1

[Gilles Durys]

Might be related (or dupe) of bug 121377

Comment 2

[Fabian Guisset]

Definitely a dup. Marking as such.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 121377 ***