897077 - Firefox switches to non-private window sometimes when on private browsing

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 768802

(Firefox :: Private Browsing, defect)

Description

[toni]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:23.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/23.0 (Beta/Release)
Build ID: 20130715155216

Steps to reproduce:

Start Firefox.
Click [LCtrl]+[LShift]+[P] to open private browsing window (I still have the non-private window open)
At the search bar search something
Click on the first result that showed on search results


Actual results:

Immediately as the page loaded, Firefox switched to the non-private window.
It didn't close the private window, but it switched immediately to the non-private window, as if I had minimized the private window.


Expected results:

What should have happened is pretty obvious IMHO, the private window should not "minimize" (it should stay where it is, and not switch focus to the non-private window)

Comment 1

[toni]

It should also be noted that it happens only sometimes, not always.

Comment 2

[Josh Matthews [:jdm]]

This sounds like bug 833048, which is a dup of bug 768802.

Comment 3

[Loic]

toni, if you disable the Flash Player plugin in Firefox, are you able to repro the issue?

In addition, you can test with protected mode disabled in Flash, see http://forums.adobe.com/thread/1018071?tstart=0 (§ "last resort")

Comment 4

[toni]

Nope, it never happened with Shockwave Flash disabled.

Comment 5

[Loic]

Thanks.