Karsten Kynde Reporter
	Description • 18 years ago

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/20061010 Firefox/2.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/20061010 Firefox/2.0

function blank(target, loc, x, y) {
    w= window.open(loc,target,"width="+x+",height="+y+",resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,status=no,menubar=no,titlebar=no',location=yes",true);
    w.focus();
    return false ;
 }

<a href="newfil.htm" onclick="return blank('kom',this.href)">

makes a new window all right, but doesn't focus or bring it in front.



Reproducible: Always




The current "Minefield" version (as of today 2006.11.28) does not seem to have the error.

	Dave Townsend [:mossop]
	Comment 1 • 18 years ago

Check the setting of dom.disable_window_flip (as set by the "Raise or lower windows" checkbox in the advanced javascript settings). If this is true then window.focus() calls from content script should not have any effect and if false then they should work.

	Jesse Ruderman
	Comment 2 • 18 years ago

Is the window behind something else when it's first created, or is the problem that the window isn't brought in front when it already exists?

	Karsten Kynde Reporter
	Comment 3 • 18 years ago

(In reply to comment #2)
> Is the window behind something else when it's first created, or is the problem
> that the window isn't brought in front when it already exists?

The latter, but the "bug" id "fixed" by comment # 1: Raise or lower
windows must be checked. This is a little akward that a browser, standard initialised, cannot do this.

	Dave Townsend [:mossop]
	Comment 4 • 18 years ago

As per comment 3, not an actual bug, merely that the default browser settings deny this sort of behaviour

	Jesse Ruderman
	Comment 5 • 18 years ago

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 355482 ***