292314 - Window.prototype.focus() doesn't change focus to the tab containing the specified window

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 416771

(Firefox :: Tabbed Browser, defect)

Description

[Yuh-Ruey Chen]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050414 Firefox/1.0.3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050414 Firefox/1.0.3

When calling the focus method on a window object, the Firefox window comes into
focus, but not the tab containing the aforementioned window object.

This is most noticable when a popup window tries to call window.opener.focus().

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1) In an HTML document (A), open another HTML document (B) via window.open().
2) Select another tab (C) (create one if you need to).
3) In B, call window.opener.focus().
Actual Results:  
Window containing A is focused, but the tab containing A isn't selected/displayed.

Expected Results:  
Tab containing A should be selected/displayed.

Comment 1

[Yuh-Ruey Chen]

Attachment: test case

Comment 2

[Yuh-Ruey Chen]

Attachment: test case 2 (popup calls func in opener that calls this.focus())

Comment 3

[William Bumgarner [:zsinj]]

Is this still a valid bug? Try to confirm it with a nightly build
http://www.mozilla.org/developer and report back whether this issue is still
pertinent.

Otherwise, this bug will be marked INVALID for for inactivity in excess of 60
days (pre-1.0.4). I am self-assigning to track this bug and will reassign to
original owner if this bug is still valid.

Comment 4

[Yuh-Ruey Chen]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b3) Gecko/20050712
Firefox/1.0+

Bug still exists on this build.

Comment 5

[Yuh-Ruey Chen]

clearer summary

Comment 6

[Dricks]

Fifrefox 3.0.4, problem is still there even if you check the advanced javascript option 'Raise window thing'.

That's REALLY annoying for intranet applications and i don't understand that it's still there 3 years later.

Comment 7

[Nickolay_Ponomarev]

In Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.3) Gecko/20090824 Firefox/3.5.3 I see that not only the "opener" tab is not selected, but the opener window is not activated either (if the active tab in the first window is not the opener tab).

This is related to bug 416771 and bug 357379.