302346 - window.focus() ignored in Firefox on Linux

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Paul Hoepfner-Homme]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050512 Firefox/1.0.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050512 Firefox/1.0.4

In Firefox on Linux, window.focus() does nothing. It works fine in Konqueror,
and I have heard that it works fine in Mozilla, IE, and Opera on Windows.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.View the attached test HTML file in Firefox on Linux.
2.Click "build win". A window will pop up. Return to the test page.
3.Click "focus on winx".
Actual Results:  
The pop-up window does not get window focus. If it was overlapping with the
opener window, it will stay behind the window.

Expected Results:  
The pop-up window should be acquired window focus. If it was overlapping with
the opener window, it should be brought to the front and completely revealed.

Comment 1

[Paul Hoepfner-Homme]

Attachment: testcase for this bug

Comment 2

[Dave Townsend [:mossop]]

In the preferences, look at web features and click on the advanced javascript
options. If the option "Raise or lower windows" is not checked then
window.focus() shouldn't work and this bug is invalid.

Please check this and respond.

Comment 3

[Paul Hoepfner-Homme]

"Raise or lower windows" is checked.

Comment 4

[Adam Guthrie]

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050726 Firefox/1.0+
ID:2005072616

Works for me. Reporter, can you reproduce this in the latest builds?
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/latest-trunk/

Comment 5

[Paul Hoepfner-Homme]

It does work for me! Sorry, I shouldn't have skipped that step. Learned my
lesson now. :)