383382 - alerts can appear over the wrong window

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

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

Description

[Blake Kaplan (:mrbkap) (inactive)]

Attachment: testcase

We've done some work in the past to ensure that alerts always appear over the page that called alert. However, by using |alert(window.open(...) && "foo")| it's possible to get around the current fixes.

Comment 1

[Blake Kaplan (:mrbkap) (inactive)]

The original fix to bring the alert()ing tab to the foreground was for bug 262887.

Comment 2

[Blake Kaplan (:mrbkap) (inactive)]

Jesse asked some pointed questions that led to the following conclusions:
- The window.open call does not have to be *in* the call to alert. So:
    window.open("http://www.mozilla.org");
    alert("Hello, world");
  shows the same behavior.

- The testcase works on Linux whether or not you divert new windows to tabs.
- The testcase only works on Windows if you divert new windows to tabs.

Comment 3

[Brandon Sterne (:bsterne)]

Dolske, is this still valid?  What are the cases where alert() still produces a dialog?

Comment 4

[Olli Pettay [:smaug][[e-mail]]]

Because we have now per tab alerts, this is wfm.