Closed Bug 481844 Opened 15 years ago Closed 15 years ago

Firefox steals focus when opening URLs in tabs

Categories

(Firefox :: General, enhancement)

Product:
Firefox
Component:
General
Platform:
x86_64
Linux
Type:
enhancement
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 263553

People

(Reporter: bugzilla.mozilla.org, Unassigned)

References

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Details

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-GB; rv:1.9.0.6) Gecko/2009020407 Iceweasel/3.0.6 (Debian-3.0.6-1)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-GB; rv:1.9.0.6) Gecko/2009020407 Iceweasel/3.0.6 (Debian-3.0.6-1)

With browser.tabs.loadDivertedInBackground==False, opening new URLs from the command line causes Firefox to steal focus from the terminal, while it opens the requested URL in the foreground.

Setting browser.tabs.loadDivertedInBackground==True prevents that, but also causes the tabs to be loaded in the background.

It would be nice if the focus stealing could be turned off separately, such that I could open URLs in the foreground without losing focus.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
0. start a browser instance
1. type "firefox http://mozilla.org" into terminal
2. observe the Mozilla page loading in the browser as a tab
3. observe how Firefox took away the focus from the terminal
Actual Results:  
See (3)

Expected Results:  
I would like to be able to disable the focus transfer, while loading tabs in the foreground still.
Seems like the same issue as #436873
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 15 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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