364081 - Window opened with alwaysLowered=yes feature does not stay lowered

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Core :: DOM: Core & HTML, defect, P5)

Description

[Massimiliano Mirra]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/20061010 Firefox/2.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/20061010 Firefox/2.0

Specifying the alwaysLowered feature when opening a new window should cause the window to always stay below its parent when its parent is not minimized,  according to http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/DOM:window.open.  Instead, it appears to have no effect on Linux/GNOME/GTK2.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open the error console.
2. Type: window.open('about:config', 'about', 'alwaysLowered=yes')

Actual Results:  
New window is opened in the foreground and can be sent to background and brought to foreground again as usual.


Expected Results:  
New window should stay below its parent window.

Also happening on 3.0a1.  Might be related to non-functioning of window.focus()/window.blur() on same platform.  Not happening on 3.0a1 for win32.

Comment 1

[Jesse Ruderman]

I think alwaysLowered requires special privs, but if you're typing your script into the Error Console, it should have those privs.  Dup of bug 274088?

Comment 2

[Massimiliano Mirra]

(In reply to comment #1)
> I think alwaysLowered requires special privs, but if you're typing your script
> into the Error Console, it should have those privs.  Dup of bug 274088?

Probably not, as bug 274088 refers to content scripts with expanded privileges and mentions no difference of behaviour under different platforms (although the latter might be just for lack of trying), while this issue came up in extension code and produces different behaviours under Linux/GTK2 and win32.  I will provide a XPI packaged testcase if useful.

Comment 3

[Firefox Bug Husbandry Bot]

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1472046

Move all DOM bugs that haven’t been updated in more than 3 years and has no one currently assigned to P5.

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