309314 - Multi-tab window forces itself to front ahead of mail window

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, defect)

Description

[Frank Griffin]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.11) Gecko/20050729
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.11) Gecko/20050729

If you set preferences to cause the
middle mouse button to open a new tab in the existing browser window (rather
than a new window), the existing browser window behavior changes when the second
tab opens.  At that point, it remains at the front even if you click on the mail
client window.  If you click on the mail window's titlebar, the mail window will
front, which means that the mail window is declining to front itself when
activity is detected (I assume the titlebar click is under control of the WM).

This occurs when middle-clicking on URLs in a mail message, e.g. a newsletter
with multiple links to articles.  As long as the browser window has only a
single tab open (i.e. non-tab mode), a click on the mail window will front it
normally.



Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1) In Edit->Preferences->Navigator->Tabbed Browsing, you have to enable "open
new tab for middle click".  I also have "hide tab bar when only 1 tab open"
checked.

2) The source of the links that you open via middle-click has to be in a mail
message.  Simply opening a browser window with multiple tabs and fronting it
ahead of the mail window won't cause the problem.  Both of the tabs in the open
browser window have to have been opened by middle-clicking on a link in the
mail message.

I'll attach a mail folder with a single message containing multiple links that
can be used.  Display the message in the mail window, adjust your settings as
described above, and open two articles via middle-click.

After opening the first (which will not display a tab bar in the browser
window), you should be able to front the mail window by clicking on any unused
part of the message window (normal).  After opening the second (now tab bar is
displayed), you'll have to click on the mail window titlebar to front it;
clicking on the message window will have no effect.



Actual Results:  
Mail window doesn't front.

Expected Results:  
Mail window should front.

Comment 1

[Frank Griffin]

Attachment: mail file containing single message with multiple links

Comment 2

[Andrew Schultz]

> If you click on the mail window's titlebar, the mail window will
> front, which means that the mail window is declining to front itself when
> activity is detected (I assume the titlebar click is under control of the WM).

Both behaviors (title bar and clicking within the window) are controled by the
window manager.  Mozilla could add its own behavior when clicking on content,
but it doesn't.  

Comment 3

[Tony Mechelynck [:tonymec]]

Resolving WONTFIX as per comment #2

Since then, Mozilla 1.7 has become hopelessly outdated. If you see this bug in a recent build AND you believe it ought to be fixed, please open a new bug for some current product version.