355816 - Popup windows opened from a parent window do not come back into focus when the same link is clicked on the parent window

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 239120

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Michael]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/20061003 Firefox/2.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/20061003 Firefox/2.0

I'm hoping this is user error...but I searched for a setting for a few minutes and couldn't find it.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install, launch, navigate to a website that has popup windows (sites that I use that exhibit this problem: http://manhunt.net, http://washingtonpost.com)
2. On washiningtonpost.com, click a link to a photo galley (the status bar in the bottom will start with javascript:)
--> popup photo gallery opens
3. Without closing that popup window, bring washingtonpost.com back into focus
4. Click the same link you clicked

Actual Results:  
Nothing happens.  washingtonpost.com remains in focus

Expected Results:  
The popup photo gallery should have come back into focus.

Comment 1

[Jesse Ruderman]

The problem on washingtonpost.com is bug 239120.  If you see similar problems on other sites, it's probably because of that or because of bug 355482.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 239120 ***

Comment 2

[Holger Ehlert]

This happens also on os Win2000 with Firefox 2.0 - see , http://www.kreolfleurage.com. Scripting/function did work fine in Firefox 1.5X