300086 - 'You have requested an encrypted page' message steals focus when opening a new tab, interfering with 'off' position of 'Select new tabs opened from links'

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(SeaMonkey :: Tabbed Browser, defect)

Description

[Stewart Gordon]

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050702

I have the 'Select new tabs opened from links' option switched off, so that I
can work down a page opening links on it and then read the pages.  This normally
works well, but when the target URLs are https, the security alert steals the
focus and interferes with the process.

Steps to reproduce:
1. Have 'Select new tabs opened from links' switched off.
2. Go to a secure site, e.g. Bugzilla.
3. Try to open several links in new tabs, e.g. bug pages from a query page.

Actual results:
'You have requested an encrypted page' message comes up on the new tabs, seizing
the focus from the tab on which I was opening links.

Expected results:
Maybe pop up the security message when I first switch to the new tab?

Dealing with bug 156758/bug 160195 would stop it happening in the example I
gave, but not with the general case (in which secure tabs may be opened from an
insecure page).

Comment 1

[Jorge Villalobos [:jorgev] (he/him)]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050706
Firefox/1.0+
I can confirm. It's probably an issue of ALL OSes.

Comment 2

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

> Maybe pop up the security message when I first switch to the new tab?

That won't really work once that message allows cancelling the load...

Comment 3

[Stewart Gordon]

Are you thinking of bug 62178 here?  What will happen to the new tab if the user cancels the request?  Automatically close it?  Leave it untitled?  Leave it on the user home page?  Something else?  I don't see how any of these possibilities would be affected by the idea.

Comment 4

[Philip Chee]

Bug 817441 turned SSL-related warning prompts into notifications, so no more modal alerts.
Closing this as WORKSFORME.