301761 - Opening New Tab, Sometimes New Tab Has Focus

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 249136

(Firefox :: Tabbed Browser, defect)

Description

[Ronald W. Heiby]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050716 Firefox/1.0.6
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050716 Firefox/1.0.6

Unfortunately, this happens sporadically. When opening a new page, via "right
click, t" to open in a new tab, usually the tab is created and the data is
loaded, but things like arrow-down or PgDn keystrokes still affect the original
(still-viewed) page. Sometimes, however, the focus moves to the new page in the
new tab that is not being displayed. Just now, for example, I created about four
new tabs with pages to be viewed "later", each using a "right click, t" on the
current page's links. The last
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captured keyboard focus, such that my PgDn keystrokes brought *it* to the bottom
of the page, rather than the tab I was viewing.

Reproducible: Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[Ronald W. Heiby]

Just now, I used the mouse to select a different tab, and PgDn / PgUp continued
to affect the page I just left. After Ctrl-T to create a new tab, and entering
"bugzilla.mozilla.org" in the address bar, PgDn continued to affect that first tab.

Comment 2

[Aaron Leventhal]

Do you have the option set to load a new tab in a foreground tab?

If so then this is a dupe of bug 249136.

Comment 3

[Richard Hurt]

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050716
Firefox/1.0.6

Is this a dupe of bug 278527?

I can confirm this behavior on Mac OSX 10.3.9 when CTRL+Clicking links into
background tabs.  This just started happening for me with Firefox 1.0.6 and it
happens on both Windows XP and OSX.

Comment 4

[Aaron Leventhal]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 249136 ***

Comment 5

[Ronald W. Heiby]

(In reply to comment #2)
> Do you have the option set to load a new tab in a foreground tab?

I interpret the phrase "foreground tab" to mean a tab that is currently being
displayed. I am unaware of an option related to that. When I do a right-click
and "t" to "Open Link in New Tab", the new tab is created and the page is loaded
into it, but the page I had been viewing continues to be viewed. According to my
terminology, the newly created tab is in the background, or behind the current
tab. Is this bug still a duplicate?