280581 - When two windows open to same url (which contains frames), clicking on link in second window loads the content into the first.

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 103638

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[C Bullock]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8a4) Gecko/20040927
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8a4) Gecko/20040927

The case study at the URL above shows the problem in action.  Basically, if I
have two instances of Mozilla open to the same URL, and this URL is a frameset,
if I click on a link in the second window to update the named frame in the same
instance of the browser, the content is actually changed in the named frame in
the first instance of the browser.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open two browser sessions, point both to
http://www.adginc.net/mozilla_test_case_2/ 
2. In the second session, click the link in the left frame.


Actual Results:  
The link updates the content frame of the first window, not the one it was
clicked in.

Expected Results:  
The software should have loaded the requested content into the same browser
instance, not the one opened first.

We tested this on Linux and Windows XP, under Mozilla and Firefox - reproduced
each time.  This behavior only exists when you open the same URL in two separate
windows.  It does NOT exist when you open the same URL in two tabs of the same
window.  Based on experience with bug 263017
(https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=263017), this appears to be
another focus issue.

Comment 1

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

I'm afraid you discovered bug 103638 a few years later, and about three weeks
after the fix was checked in. WFM in 20040131 trunk.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 103638 ***