239900 - Mozilla application in background given focus and "bring to front" w/ no user interaction

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 77675

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[Michael Lippert]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7b) Gecko/20040316
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7b) Gecko/20040316

Mozilla is open w/ several tabs (boston.com, wired.com, groklaw.net , a couple
of others), it is not minimized and not maximized.

Several other applications are running with overlapping windows. One of the
other applications currently has focus.

All of a sudden I hear the sound I think is attached to popup blocking, and then
the Mozilla window is brought to the front and given focus.

This was not happening with Mozilla 1.6 as far as I know, and has been happening
with some regularity with 1.7b.

Sorry I don't have time to try to reproduce this, but I didn't see anything like
this reported in bugzilla, and I think it really needs to be fixed for 1.7 as
there is nothing quite as annoying as having an application you aren't using
grab the focus get in front of the application you are using.

Reproducible: Didn't try
Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1

[Jesiah S]

Can you narrow it down to a single website that is doing this?  After, you found
the website see if unchecking Edit-> Pref.-> Advanced-> Scripts & Plugins-> Rise
or Lower windows helps.

Comment 2

[Ronald Skoog]

I have an issue that may be related.  If I have one Mozilla window minimized and
another open and I hit a link on my personal toolbar (or in an email) in the
open window it sometimes brings up the minimized window (even thought that
wasn't the active window) and opens the page there.  I noticed this sometime
after the September release.

I've also noticed windows becoming dead to keyboard operations (you can't type
or cut'n'paste) even though the pointer works.  You have to kill the window and
reopen it.  In my experience this has occurred mostly (but not always) in the
email application.

These may all be related.

I'm running on a Mac with OS X 10.3.6 and Mozilla 1.8a6.

Comment 3

[Adam Guthrie]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 77675 ***