278527 - tabs loaded in background steal focus from current window

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 249136

(Firefox :: Tabbed Browser, defect)

Description

[jglazman]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041227 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041227 Firefox/1.0

When a new tab is loaded in the background, the current window will lose focus,
preventing user from scrolling with the mouse wheel or typing in forms until the
current window is clicked on again.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. load a tab in the background
2. try to interact with current page (focus is lost, nothing will happen)
3. click on current page
4. try to interact again, it will work this time (focus was regained)

Actual Results:  
The current page lost focus.

Expected Results:  
The current page should retain focus if a tab is loaded in the background.

This happens with the tabbed browser preferences extension installed or not.
Settings:

TABBED BROWSING:
Links
 * Load links in: Current Tab
 * No popups
 * Load external links in: New Tab
Features
 * Load URLs from clipboard on middle click
Tab Focus
 * Load windows diverted into tabs in the background
 * Load middle-clicked URLs in new tabs
 * Load middle-clicked bookmarks in the backgorund
 * Load new tabs behind current tab

ADVANCED
Accessibility: nothing selected
Browsing: nothing selected

Comment 1

[jens]

This is very VERY annoying!

As a die-hard Opera fan (who would like to switch to a more free browser), this 
just puts me off Firefox.

I want to be able to work my way through a web page, clicking on a dozen or more 
links--which open in a non-focused tab--and then look through them at my 
leisure. 

I DON'T want my child tabs to steal focus from my main browsing tab.

Please fix this!

Comment 2

[Jon Baumgartner]

It's not just the tab that loses focus, this affects other applications, too. I
was happily typing in Thunderbird when my previously clicked-on link finally
loaded and Firefox jumped to the front, interrupting my typing.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050706 Firefox/1.0+

Comment 3

[Shayne Jewers]

(In reply to comment #2)
> It's not just the tab that loses focus, this affects other applications, too. I
> was happily typing in Thunderbird when my previously clicked-on link finally
> loaded and Firefox jumped to the front, interrupting my typing.
> 
Ive had this happen too

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050706
Firefox/1.0+

OS should prob. be changed from Linux to All

Comment 4

[Richard Hurt]

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050716
Firefox/1.0.6

Confirmed on OSX 10.3.9 and I would just like to say that this is *very*
annoying.  :)

Comment 5

[Jefferson Ietto Novo]

This bug is really DANGEROUS when typing login/passwords and another tab steal
the focus.

should be fixed soon as possible.

Comment 6

[Aaron Leventhal]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 249136 ***