439838 - Open tabs in background and ask me about cookies interact very badly

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 405239

(Firefox :: Tabbed Browser, defect)

Description

[Doug Hockin]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9) Gecko/2008052906 Firefox/3.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9) Gecko/2008052906 Firefox/3.0

I have the Tabs option "When I open a new tab, switch to it immediately"
un-selected. I also have "Accept cookies from sites"|"Accept third-party cookies"|"Keep Until: ask me every time" selected.

These two interact very badly. If I middle click on a link to open it (in the background) in another tab and that site wants to do a cookie, then FF 3 switches to that tab and displays the Accept This Cookie dialog. The cookie dialog goes away when I answer it _and_ that tab gets focus and retains it, which is contrary to my settings.



Reproducible: Always

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Comment 1

[Nochum Sossonko [:Natch]]

The accept cookies dialog is modal, just like if a site would post an alert(), which automatically grabs focus no matter where you are so this is pretty much intentional.

Comment 2

[Doug Hockin]

Except that Firefox has never behaved this way before. It certainly doesn't behave better than it used to, so it's a regression.