250851 - Underlying tabs stealing focus

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 124750

(SeaMonkey :: Tabbed Browser, defect)

Description

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User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040703 Firefox/0.8
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040703 Firefox/0.8

Opening links to new tabs makes the pages on the new tabs steal the form input
focus to the underlying tabs. The problem is caused most likely by some
javascript that sets the focus to be able to steal the focus from the current tab. 

The bug is around in all the Mozilla and Firefox versions (been around for a
loong time and still not fixed) and noticed it on both Linux and Windows
platforms. If this is a duplicate, please increase the bug's priority. Wouldn't
be a huge problem but it causes a unwary user to type their passwords and stuff
to somewhere where they should not..

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open a page with a nice link list and a form
2. Start clicking links open on the new tabs
3. Pages in the background start loading
4. Surf around, pages still loading..
5. Notice a nice form, click for focus there
6. Start typing, the underlying other tab page source gets loaded
Actual Results:  
Focus is stolen to some other tab and your text is all going there

Expected Results:  
Text going to the tab that I am viewing and where I just selected a form

Comment 1

[Oleg Sidletskiy]

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