282039 - Existing Firefox window steals focus before opening a new window from an other application

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 255123

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Eric Jain]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

I have set: Tools > Options... > Advanced > Tabbed Browsing > Open links from
other applications in: a new window

Now when I click on a link in Thuderbird, for example, and Firefox is already
running, the existing Firefox window will be focussed for a fraction of a second
before the new window is opened. This itself would not be an issue, but when I
then do a Ctrl-Tab to switch back, the first Firefox window appears in place of
the expected Thunderbird window.

You can of course press Ctrl-Tab-Tab, but I would consider this a bit of a
usability issue neverthless.


Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 255123 ***