433158 - Firefox steals focus when Quick Find dialogue times out

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 332990

(Toolkit :: Find Toolbar, defect)

Description

[Borbus]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.14) Gecko/20080404 Arch Firefox/2.0.0.14
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.14) Gecko/20080404 Arch Firefox/2.0.0.14

When using the option "Search for text when I start typing", the Quick Find dialogue appears at the bottom. After a time without typing or pressing ctrl-G this dialogue times out and disappears. However, if Firefox has since lost focus ie. due to the user switching to another window, Firefox will steal focus when this times out.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Enable "Search for text when I start typing" in Preferences.
2. On any web page, start typing (not into a text input box or anything) to start the Quick Find dialogue at the bottom.
3. Switch to another window immediately and wait.
4. After a time Firefox will steal focus and the Quick Find dialogue will disappear.
Actual Results:  
Firefox stole focus back from the window I switched to.

Expected Results:  
Firefox should just close the Quick Find dialogue without stealing focus back from the user.

Also confirmed to exist in Firefox 3 beta 5.

With a window manager like KWin (KDE), the focus grab may be overridden and just result in the Firefox taskbar button flashing. However, on lighter window managers such as xfce the user will be interrupted by Firefox.