742254 - With 'browser.tabs.loadDivertedInBackground' set to true, Firefox still steals focus from external apps when URL launched

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 775400

(Firefox :: Untriaged, defect)

Description

[PurKat]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:14.0) Gecko/20120403 Firefox/14.0a1
Build ID: 20120403063158

Steps to reproduce:

1. Set 'browser.tabs.loadDivertedInBackground' to 'true'
2. Open URL from e.g. Thunderbird in Windows 7


Actual results:

Thunderbird loses focus but Firefox is not 'brought to the front'


Expected results:

Thunderbird (or any application that launches a URL) should not lose focus.

Comment 1

[u7gtw3mnas]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:14.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/14.0
Build ID: 20120704090211

Steps to reproduce: As in comment 1, also seen in a clean profile with just 'browser.tabs.loadDivertedInBackground' changed to 'true'.

I see the focus problem with all external applications like the OP, but in my case specifically MetroTwit Loop and FeedDemon 4.1.

Regression window: being on the beta channel, I've seen this since 14.0 beta 6 (the first 14.0 release on the public beta channel), whereas previous beta's up to and including 13.0 worked fine.