307982 - clicked external links don't switch application focus

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: Shell Integration, defect)

Description

[Marc Bejarano]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050908 (No IDN) Firefox/1.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050908 (No IDN) Firefox/1.4

after upgrading from ff 1.0.6 to 1.6b1, URL's that i click in eudora no longer
bring the the active firefox window to the front.  i have to manually switch
application focus with alt-tab.  running firefox in safe mode still shows the
new behavior.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20050911
Firefox/1.6a1 ID:2005091121

WFM in branch and trunk finally.

Comment 2

[Adam Guthrie]

Does this still occur after you close both Firefox and Eudora and restart them?
Also, is there anything else that would be causing this? I'm pretty sure you can
set this behavior in Windows somewhere...

Comment 3

[Marc Bejarano]

re: comment #1
ria: did you test this with eudora?

re: comment #2
closing and restarting doesn't help.  upgrading firefox was the only change i
made to see this behavior.

Comment 4

[Jon Baumgartner]

FWIW, I see this behavior in Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20060214 Firefox/1.5 ID:2006021404.

Links that I click in Thunderbird open in the background. It's a bit disconcerting, because at first it appears that nothing happened.

Comment 5

[mmortal03]

I see this in Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9a4pre) Gecko/20070417 Minefield/3.0a4pre.

If the window is unfocused but visible, the tab is created inside of it, but the window doesn't get focus.

If the window is minimized, the tab is created and the title is updated, but the window doesn't restore (and therefore the focus doesn't switch, either).

Comment 6

[Thomas D. (:thomas8)]

wfm

nowadays, external links sometimes don't open at all (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=Firefox+already%20running), but when they do, FF does get focus alright