258407 - 'Help' window always stays on top

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 216426

(SeaMonkey :: Help Documentation, defect)

Description

[henrik.parn]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113

When switching between open items using 'Alt+Tab' you sometimes 'get stuck' in
the   'Mozilla Help' window if this is open. 

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open a couple of items. In my case: MSN Messenger, Windows XP Help and
Support center, Enter A Bug - Mozilla, The Inbox in Mozilla and Mozilla Help.
2. Use 'Alt+Tab' to move between these items.
3. Moving between the Windows Help/Messenger and Mozilla help is no problem.
4. Moving between Mozilla mail and 'Enter a bug, no problem
5. Moving to 'Mozilla Help' from 'Mozilla mail' or 'Enter a bug', no problem
6. Moving from 'Mozilla Help' to the other Mozilla applications does not work.
7. Moving from 'Windows Help' to 'Mozilla mail'/'Enter a bug' if your previous
Mozilla windows was the 'Mozilla help'

The same thing applies when you try to switch using the buttons on the taskbar.

Actual Results:  
When trying to 'Alt+Tab' from 'Mozilla Help' to other Mozilla applications the
frame of the 'Mozilla Help' window turns from blue (active) to gray (not active)
but you are stuck in the 'Help' window. The other window does not pop up.

Comment 1

[Bamm Gabriana]

I think the problem is more like Mozilla Help always stays on top. If you
minimize the Help window, then Alt+Tab, it will open. So Alt+Tab works. I also
find Help's obsession with being on top quite annoying.

Is this bug invalid? Or should it be morphed to a request to make Help not
always be on top? Please check for dupes.

Comment 2

[henrik.parn]

Thanks for your quick feedback!

An option where you can choose whether 'Help' should be always on top or not,
would be great! The rapid switching between windows with Alt+Tab, without
needing to minimize et c, I think always should be a possibility. 

Cheers,

Henrik

Comment 3

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Why is Help always staying on top?  That's utterly uncalled-for!

Comment 4

[[e-mail]]

Optional help on top is bug 216426.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 216426 ***