239468 - Background tab using javascript .focus() steals focus from foreground tab

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 124750

(SeaMonkey :: Tabbed Browser, defect)

Description

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User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040206 Firefox/0.8
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040206 Firefox/0.8

Explained in Summary, Steps to Reproduce, and Actual Results fields.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open any page that uses the .focus() event in javascript (For example:
http://www.fastmail.fm ).
2. Open a new tab before the first page has triggered the .focus()
3. Start typing in a new URL
Actual Results:  
Focus goes to textbox in background tab as soon as the .focus() event triggers.
Whatever you are typing in the new window (or address bar) starts getting sent
to the background window.

Expected Results:  
Set the focus once the background page is brought into the foreground.

Comment 1

[Alfonso Martinez]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 124750 ***