513246 - Since using Snow Leopard Firefox window is "inactive" at the startup.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 510740

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Ivo]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; de; rv:1.9.1.2) Gecko/20090729 Firefox/3.5.2
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; de; rv:1.9.1.2) Gecko/20090729 Firefox/3.5.2

When i start up Firefox under Snow Leopard, the Firefox is inactive. With Leopard I could directly jump into writing the homepage with cmd + L after starting up Firefox. With Snow Leopard I first have to click into the window, since it's inactive at the beginning. It's kind of annoying. :-) I tried it on several machines always with the same result. I hope you can fix it soon! Thank you a lot!

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Install Snow Leopard
2.Start Firefox
3.


Expected Results:  
Firefox window should be "active" at the startup.

No addons installed!!

Comment 1

[Jo Hermans]

bug 466341 claims that the problem existed before (bug 125282 ?)

Comment 2

[philippe (part-time)]

Sounds like bug 510740.

Comment 4

[Alex Machi]

I know this is an old bug report and it was originally shown as a duplicate but that has since been changed and I don't see any real resolutiong.  This is an issue I also wrote about in a Mozilla forums report in September with the heading "When Firefox 3.5.3 opens the browser window is not active (on a Mac)"

"Regardless of whether any other software is running, when Firefox 3.5.3 is open in Apple 106.1 the browser window does not open as the "front" application. If any other program is open, Firefox' window is hidden behind that other software's window, even though "Firefox" is shown in the Menu bar. If no other program is running you see the browser window open but it is grayed out - as if inactive. And keyboard input - Command + T, Command + R, Tab, etc. - has no effect. I have to place the cursor somewhere on the page and click to make it active.

On a Mac, Command + Tab cycles through open applications (and Finder). If I repeatedly hit Command + Tab until Firefox is again highlighted in the overlay window the browser window will then be "live" or "active". But it's very odd for any program just opened to not have its window be up front.

System is a MacBook Pro Intel Core 2 Duo, OS 10.6.1 and Firefox 3.5.3.
Extensions installed:

AdBlock Plus; Download StatusBar; Download Helper; Leechblock (all active).
1Password; Cooliris; Flagfox; NoScript; TorButton (disabled). "

So, it would seem Ivo's is not a duplicate report and though still listed as resolved, I don't see any resolution in this string or any others as I search the Knowledge Base.

If anyone involved in investigating bugs is reading this I'd love to hear of a fix, or at least that there is work being done to find one for the next version of Firefox.

- thanks

Comment 5

[Ivo]

I installed the 3.6 Beta Version. This fixed the bug for me.

Comment 6

[Alex Machi]

Great to hear that the next version of Firefox addresses this issue and, perhaps, other similar problems.

I wonder if 3.6 is likely to make current add-ons inoperative.  Maybe the update is rather minor and these won't be affected?  Anyone with knowledge able to reassure me?

Thanks to Ivo for the investigative work and taking the time to reply.

all the best,

Alex