398091 - Closing popups returns user to previous tab, not next tab

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 533232

(Firefox :: Tabbed Browser, defect)

Description

[Dotan Cohen]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.6) Gecko/20061201 Firefox/2.0.0.6 (Ubuntu-feisty)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.6) Gecko/20061201 Firefox/2.0.0.6 (Ubuntu-feisty)

When a website pops up a window, and that window is then closed, the user is presented with the next tab. He should be presented with the tab that opened the popup.

For instance, a user may have tabs 1,2 and 3 open (from left to right). He is browsing in Tab 2, which opens a popup (tab 2.5). When the user closes tab 2.5 he finds himself on tab 3. He should have been returned to tab 2.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to site with popup
2. Close popup
3. You are now on the wrong tab!
Actual Results:  
User finds himself on tab that did not open popup.

Expected Results:  
To be returned to the same tab that opened popup.

Comment 1

[Tyler Downer [He/Him]]

This bug was reported using Firefox 3.0 or older, which is no longer supported. The bug has also not been changed in over 500 days and is still in UNCO.
Reporter, please retest this bug in Firefox 3.6.10 or later using a fresh profile, http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/managing+profiles. If you still see this problem, please update the bug. If you no longer see the bug, please set the resolution to RESOLVED, WORKSFORME.

This is a mass search of unconfirmed bugs that have no activity on them, so if you feel a bug was marked in error, just remove the CLOSEME comment in the whiteboard within the next month.

Comment 2

[David Mullin]

This is still a bug (Firefox 3.6.12), and an annoying one.  It is as described:  If you have open tabs A, B, and C, and are browsing in A, and either open a link in a new tab, or a pop-up opens a new tab, so that opens in tab A2, betwen A and B.  When you close tab A2, the page should revert to page A, but B opens instead.  Seriously sux.

Comment 3

[Dão Gottwald [:dao]]

This will be fixed in Firefox 4.