470130 - If the first click on an inactive window is ignored, double-clicking it should only be processed as a single click

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Core :: Widget: Cocoa, defect)

Description

[andeberlin]

User-Agent:       Opera/9.63 (Macintosh; PPC Mac OS X; U; de) Presto/2.1.1
Build Identifier: Firefox 3.0.4

In Opera as well as huge amounts of other software on os x now, this feature is turned off if not desired.  It seriously hinders the usuability of Firefox when even amoung firefox windows a focus click has to be performed before the window can be used.  The user first needs to click the desired window, then click the link (for example) to use it. A simple work around should be to simply double click the desired window.  This unfortunatly manages to open the window twice!!  Therefore the only way to use the other window is to click the other window, wait a little jsut to make sure the system doesnt read a double click then click the windows link you wanted.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.find a web page with a link that opens in a new window
2.command+N to open a 2nd window
3.move or resize 2nd window so you can see a link in the 1st window, leaving the 2nd window as active
4.try to click on the link in the 1st window (doesnt work, you have only activated the first window and its now waiting for you to "really" click on the link
5. click back to the 2nd window again
6. now try double clicking the link in the 1st window (this has now brings up the link twice)
Actual Results:  
steps 1 to 4 does nothing exept focus back to qst window
steps 5 to 6 produce the desired window (undesirably) twice

Expected Results:  
steps 1 to 4 should actually activate the link (i understand that this is a feature of os x, but many apps seem to have reconised that this can be an issue and have disabled the click to focus(including some of apples apps such as calendar and finder itself) at the very least is it not possible to have an option to turn off or an option to at least turn off between firefoxs internal windows

steps 5 to 6 should not produce 2 windows, only one.  If the 1st click was to activate the window and the 2nd click to open link, when on earth did it manage to get the 2nd occurance of the window from?

This may sound like a trivial problem, but to my mind it is majoy enough that I simply cannot use firefox while it behaves this way.  Firefox is otherwise a fantastic peice of software which is giving opera some serious competition, or rather it would be if this problem was addressed

Comment 1

[Markus Stange [:mstange]]

Yeah, ignoring the first click but treating a double click as double click is really inconsistent.

Bug 392188 is about implementing click-through in general. Let's make this bug about the double-click inconsistency.

Comment 2

[Markus Stange [:mstange]]

Okay, so the first part (allow click-through to content) is wontfix, the second part (don't fire double-click when the first click was ignored) is fixed by bug 392188.

It's possible for an extension to turn on click-through on content.