245269 - Focus lost on current tab when background tab loads

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 124750

(Firefox :: Tabbed Browser, defect)

Description

[Dave Rowe]

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

This bug occurs when multiple tabs are open.  When I am loading a lengthy or
slow page on one tab, I am working on others.  If I am typing in the current
tab, and another backgroud tab finishes loading, or changes / refreshes, the
current tab loses focus.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Load up multiple tabs.
2. Have a slow loading, or refreshing / lengthy page on a backgroud tab.
3. Type content in the current tab

Actual Results:  
Lost focus on the current tab

Expected Results:  
Kept focus on the current tab, while updating / loading th background tabs.

No real crashes or anything serious.  Basically an annoyance.

Comment 1

[José Jeria]

WFM: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040601
Firefox/0.8.0+

Any specific URL to reproduce this?

Comment 2

[Bogdan Stroe]

Maybe what you see is the problem reported in bug 124750.

Comment 3

[Felipe]

WFM: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8a2) Gecko/20040602 Firefox/0.8.0+

Comment 4

[Alexey N. Solofnenko]

I can confirm it – JavaScript focus() steals focus from the current tab.

To reproduce:
Go to Bank of America web site: http://www.bofa.com/;
Quickly press Ctrl-T and start typing characters in address bar.
After BofA page is loaded it requests a focus for user id input box and steals the focus from the current tab.

It is VERY annoying.

Comment 5

[Bogdan Stroe]

(In reply to comment #4)
> I can confirm it – JavaScript focus() steals focus from the current tab.
> 
what you describe here is bug 124750;

the initial reporter didn't confirm that the problem is caused buy JavaScript
focus(), otherwise I would have marked this as a duplicate;

Comment 6

[(not currently active) Ted Mielczarek]

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