460434 - alert/prompt/confirm popup allows tab to steal focus

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 123913

(Firefox :: Tabbed Browser, defect)

Description

[u315569]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US) AppleWebKit/525.13 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/0.2.149.30 Safari/525.13
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.0.3) Gecko/2008092417 Firefox/3.0.3

Assume you have two tabs "A" and "B" open in FireFox. You've got "A" open ("A" has focus). Tab "B" can steal focus by executing an alert/prompt/confirm popup. "A" can steal it back by doing the same (but only after you've closed the first alert/prompt/confirm)

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Load the URL
2. Watch the focus go to the new tab and back
3.
Actual Results:  
Tab focus changes to the tab executing the alert/prompt/confirm

Expected Results:  
Tab focus remains unchanged. Optionally, the tab could "blink" to indicate my attention is requested.

Found in Chrome, aplies to FireFox as well. IE behaves as expected; focus remains unchanged and the tab executing the alert/prompt/confirm blinks. Does not apply to Safari 3.

Comment 1

[u315569]

Filed for Chromium as 3531
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=3531