322013 - Clicking the X to close tab on a inactive window closes tab

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Camino Graveyard :: Tabbed Browsing, defect)

Description

[nomadvi]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050531 Camino/0.9+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050531 Camino/0.9+

When moving from the DL manager (or any other window) back to the browsing window, if you click on the X in a tab that tab will close once the window becomes active.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create a new tab
2. Make window inactive by selecting the finder, or another window
3. cick on the tabs X in the inactive window
Actual Results:  
Window becomes active, tab closes.

Expected Results:  
Window becomes active.

Comment 1

[Smokey Ardisson (offline for a while; not following bugs - do not email)]

I don't think we should be click-through in this case (just like the destructive buttons in the dl manager aren't enabled for click-through when it's not the active window).  Closing bg tabs in the *active* window is fine, but the behavior here seems a little too much....

Comment 2

[Chris Lawson (gone)]

Fixed by checkin of bug 235864.

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