244916 - firefox steals focus when raising error dialog box

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 216466

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Shad Sterling]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7b) Gecko/20040326 Firefox/0.8
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7b) Gecko/20040326 Firefox/0.8

The firefox window generating the error jumps to front, and the (modal) dialog
box gets focus.
I've been getting frequent "connection refused" errors where this happens.

Reproducible: Sometimes
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Try to load a page such the the connection will be refused
2. switch windows and start typing
3. watch your keystrokes get diverted



Expected Results:  
brought the dialog box immediately above the document window, without changing
the position of the document window; maybe flash the taskbar icon.

Comment 1

[Oleg Sidletskiy]

The real solution would be to stop using modal dialogs altogether.
duping, if disagree, feel free to reopen.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 216466 ***

Comment 2

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

no, that's the only solution we have for that.

Another stopgap solution would be to find the option to not let windows steal
focus, but that's a TweakUI setting.