291322 - Firefox window goes to back of open windows when a desktop shortcut used

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Andrew Allison]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050414 Firefox/1.0.3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050414 Firefox/1.0.3

With, e.g., Eudora and Firefox open and Firefox on top, opening another
application causes the Firefox window to go to the bottom, i.e. it can no longer
be seen. 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open, e.g., Eudora
2. Open Firefox
3. Open, e.g. Windows Calculator
Actual Results:  
The Firefox window disappears behind the Eudora window as soon as the third
application is opened, e.g., I can't see the information that I wanted to put
into the calculator and have to re-open the Firefox window and then the
calculator window (because it gets overwritten by Firefox). In other words,
three clicks instead of one.

Expected Results:  
Leave the Firefox window directly behind the newly opened window instead of
pushing it to the back.

Comment 1

[Peter van der Woude [:Peter6]]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050421
Firefox/1.0+

I have seen a similar behaviour.
Firefox not always opening on top.
Haven't been able to reproduce it yet.

Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 3

[Andrew Allison]

Was present in 1.0.6, not present in 1.05 Beta.