481425 - Firefox does not report minimize status to explorer task bar correctly

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core :: Widget: Win32, defect)

Description

[Kenaniah Cerny]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.0.6) Gecko/2009011913 Firefox/3.0.6
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.0.6) Gecko/2009011913 Firefox/3.0.6

When minimizing FF from either the full screen or windowed state using any means (right-click minimize from taskbar, minimize icon in FF, or minimize from FF menu), the application continues to hold focus if there are no other "unminimized" applications running. What I by "holding focus" is that in the task bar, the FF task button is still highlighted as if I had the application open and focused. 

Proper behavior would be for FF to release focus and hand it to the next available application with an open window, like all other windows apps. 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open FF 3.0.6
2. Open notepad.exe
3. Give FF focus
4. Minimize FF. Notepad doesn't receive focus like it is supposed to.
Actual Results:  
FF is minimized, but does not hand over focus to the next available application.

Expected Results:  
Focus should be delegated to the next available application upon minimize.

Open notepad.exe twice, and minimize one instance of notepad. You will notice that focus has been properly delegated to the next available application (the other notepad instance in this case). This is how FF should behave when minimizing.

Comment 1

[Dominik Müller]

The same problem is already present @ the Firefox 3.5 till 3.5.3 in connection with C, C++, C# and Delphi Programms which use the eh libary.

The problem is fully reprocudible:
1. Start a Programm with eh libary source code.
2. Start Firefox 3.x.x
3. Minimize Firefox
4. Change with f.e. ALT+TAB to the other programm.
   The ohter programm doesn't receive the focus like it supposed to.
   It seems to that the firefox doesn't delegated the focus correctly back 
   to the former programm.

The expected behave of Firefox should be the same as posted above.

Comment 2

[Jim Mathies [:jimm]]

win7:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:6.0a1) Gecko/20110522 Firefox/6.0a1

XP:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:6.0a1) Gecko/20110522 Firefox/6.0a1

WFM