839166 - focus jumps between chat windows on facebook

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox Graveyard :: SocialAPI: Providers, defect)

Description

[Shane Caraveo (:mixedpuppy)]

The original bug was bug 824162 which morphed info fixing a related focus problem, but does not address the facebook specific problem.  The problem in facebook chat windows is not otherwise reproducible in simple content.  I believe they are calling window.focus() somewhere, expecting that all chat windows are within the same DOM tree.  Without further details I am going to claim that this is a bug on the provider side.

Original note from bug 824162:

- open 2 chat windows
- focus into one
- switch to a different application
- move the app so the non-focused chat window is visible
- click into the non-focused chat window
- start typing

If you do the last step fast enough, some of your message will appear in the chat window you clicked on, then focus gets moved back to the previously focused chat window, and your typing continues there.

Sometimes it will switch back and forth more than once.

I think this is a potential privacy issue: if you don't realize your focus changed, you may send a message to the wrong person.