406167 - Firefox 3 remote control steals foreground from other apps

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 388664

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Jesus Cea]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9b2pre) Gecko/2007112904 Minefield/3.0b2pre
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9b2pre) Gecko/2007112904 Minefield/3.0b2pre

When I "click" over a link in other program, the URL is opened in a Firefox windows/tab. The FF window goes to foreground, hiding the original application requesting the URL.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open Firefox
2. Open another program with URL link support
3. In the second program, "click" over a link
4. Firefox opens the URL
Actual Results:  
Firefox window goes foreground, stealing focus and visibility from the original URL requester.

Expected Results:  
Firefox should open the URL in background, leaving the original application alone. So the user can keep clicking on additional links, for example.

Previous versions of firefox worked fine. So, this is a regression.

Comment 1

[Kevin Brosnan]

works for me - Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9b2pre) Gecko/2007113004 Minefield/3.0b2pre ID:2007113004

Pidgin and Terminal

Comment 2

[Jesus Cea]

Kevin, could you try with Thunderbird?. That is, click on a link in a message in Thunderbird.

Thanks.

Comment 3

[Kevin Brosnan]

I don't have Thunderbird installed.

Comment 4

[Mike Beltzner [:beltzner, not reading bugmail]]

Not blocking until it's confirmed.

Comment 5

[Jesus Cea]

Some data:

I'm a KDE user. My version is a bit old: KDE 3.4.2. KDE standard windows manager. This is a Suse 10.0, fully patched.

I'm seeing this issue clicking links in Thunderbird 2.*.

My main point is: same configuration, Firefox 2 works fine.

Any other data you need?.

Comment 6

[Aleksei Perepelkin [:chaos]]

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9b2pre) Gecko/2007121108 Minefield/3.0b2pre

Still reproducible.

Comment 7

[Aleksei Perepelkin [:chaos]]

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9b3pre) Gecko/2007121704 Minefield/3.0b3pre

Running on Gentoo under Gnome 2.20. Can confirm.

Comment 8

[Aleksei Perepelkin [:chaos]]

Also "Actual Results" i getting:
Firefox window goes foreground, stealing focus and visibility from the original
URL requester and keep flashing in taskbar.

Comment 9

[Martin Stubenschrott]

I can also confirm this very annoying bug. Actually just for that i have set loadTabsInBackground or what it's called. If that config variable is true, it doesn't steal focus, but otherwise it does.

Very annoying when trying to open 10 links from an external feed reader with 

firefox -remote "openurl($URL,new-tab)"

and Firefox steals focus each time :(

I *think* when investigating the problem, i saw that content.focus() also raises the window, not just window.focus() as expected.

Firefox3 nightly on Linux with wmii window manager here.