3779 2005-06-30 14:09:14 -0700 gmail website steals tab focus 2006-05-31 14:55:04 -0700 1 1 1 Unclassified WebKit WebKit Misc. 412 Mac OS X 10.4 RESOLVED FIXED P3 Normal --- 1 clmason hyatt ap clmason jruderman mitz oldest_to_newest 13571 0 clmason 2005-06-30 14:09:14 -0700 If you start loading the gmail site in one tab, then (because if often takes awhile) you open a new tab and start doing something else, when the gmail site loads to the inbox, it switches the current tab in the user interface back to the tab gmail was loaded in! What makes this more annoying is that often I am in a new tab, typing a new url, and the old tab with gmail pops back into "focus" just as I am hitting enter, resulting in the new site being loaded in the gmail tab, and me losing my gmail inbox! I haven't encoutered any other site that manages to change the tab focus in Safari. I'm not sure how it is doing so, maybe some unique bit of javascript? In any event, I think this behaviour should never be allowed. I left gmail back in its own tab for a reason, I'll come back to it when I'm good and ready! :) Note this also happens in Safari 1.3 and 1.2 and probably further back as well. 13609 1 joost 2005-07-01 11:46:17 -0700 very, very weird bug... Should be fixed, before any other sites figure out how to do it. 17018 2 clmason 2005-08-20 14:34:59 -0700 Blah, this bugzilla won't let me change my email address. :( 18690 3 darin 2005-09-04 13:14:33 -0700 If you call window.focus(), then your window and tab come to the front. That's working as designed. 18714 4 clmason 2005-09-04 16:45:21 -0700 Because of the behaviour I described, I think this should not be permitted by default. If not, at least can an option be provided to turn this off (like with the popup blocker)? I believe that most people would not want windows and/or tabs popping up of their own accord. 18742 5 mitz 2005-09-05 06:48:11 -0700 Firefox behaves differently. It never switches to the Gmail tab, but it does bring the window containing that tab to the front (which is rather pointless if it's not the active tab). 44095 6 jruderman 2006-05-31 01:56:01 -0700 Hyatt agrees this is a bug. It's similar to the fixed Gecko bug https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=300453. (Side note: WebKit gets this right for textboxes, while Gecko doesn't; see https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=307933.) 44096 7 8617 jruderman 2006-05-31 01:56:58 -0700 Created attachment 8617 simple testcase 44097 8 jruderman 2006-05-31 02:00:15 -0700 Err... that testcase demonstrates the bug when loaded from file:///, but it hits a same-origin security error when loaded from Bugzilla. I guess WebKit doesn't treat data: URLs the same way as Gecko. Odd that it works from file:/// then. 44098 9 jruderman 2006-05-31 02:03:04 -0700 There's also the question of whether web sites should be allowed to steal focus at all, but since that's not what Gmail is trying to do, I don't think that's on-topic for this bug. 44168 10 hyatt 2006-05-31 14:31:45 -0700 Fixed. 44179 11 clmason 2006-05-31 14:55:04 -0700 Thanks! 8617 2006-05-31 01:56:58 -0700 2006-05-31 01:56:58 -0700 simple testcase focusiframe.html text/html 625 jruderman PGh0bWw+CjxoZWFkPgo8c2NyaXB0PgpmdW5jdGlvbiBmb2N1c0lmcmFtZSgpCnsKICB2YXIgaSA9 IGRvY3VtZW50LmdldEVsZW1lbnRCeUlkKCJpIik7CiAgaS5jb250ZW50V2luZG93LmZvY3VzKCk7 Cn0KPC9zY3JpcHQ+Cgo8Ym9keSBvbmxvYWQ9InNldFRpbWVvdXQoZm9jdXNJZnJhbWUsIDMwMDAp OyI+Cgo8aWZyYW1lIGlkPSJpIiBzcmM9ImRhdGE6dGV4dC9odG1sLDxwPmlmcmFtZTxwPmlmcmFt ZTxwPmlmcmFtZTxwPmlmcmFtZTxwPmlmcmFtZTxwPmlmcmFtZTxwPmlmcmFtZTxwPmlmcmFtZSI+ PC9pZnJhbWU+Cgo8cD5BZnRlciAzIHNlY29uZHMsIHRoaXMgcGFnZSBmb2N1c2VzIHRoZSBpZnJh bWUuICBUaGlzIHNob3VsZCBtYWtlIHRoZSBpZnJhbWUgc2Nyb2xsYWJsZSB3aXRoIHRoZSBrZXli b2FyZC4gIFRoaXMgc2hvdWxkIG5vdCBtYWtlIHRoaXMgcGFnZSdzIHRhYiBiZWNvbWUgdGhlIGZv cmVncm91bmQgdGFiLjwvcD4KCjxwPnBhZ2U8cD5wYWdlPHA+cGFnZTxwPnBhZ2U8cD5wYWdlPHA+ cGFnZTxwPnBhZ2U8cD5wYWdlPHA+cGFnZTxwPnBhZ2U8cD5wYWdlPHA+cGFnZTxwPnBhZ2U8cD5w YWdlPHA+cGFnZTxwPnBhZ2U8cD5wYWdlPHA+cGFnZTxwPnBhZ2UKCjwvYm9keT4KPC9odG1sPg==