Bug 19375

Summary: window.focus steals focus from other windows
Product: WebKit Reporter: Erik Arvidsson <erik.arvidsson>
Component: UI EventsAssignee: Nobody <webkit-unassigned>
Status: UNCONFIRMED    
Severity: Major CC: jcraig, mitz
Priority: P2 Keywords: GoogleBug, HasReduction, InRadar
Version: 528+ (Nightly build)   
Hardware: Mac   
OS: OS X 10.5   
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Erik Arvidsson
Reported 2008-06-03 08:57:38 PDT
If I am happily working in one window or tab and another window or tab does a window.focus() WebKit immediately changes to that tab. Steps to reproduce: 1. Open attached file in a new tab or window. 2. Go to another tab or window Desired effect: Should stay on the non attachment tab/window Actual effect: Switches to the attachment tab/window every 5 seconds. This is very destructive since apps like gmail does this and gmail has weird keyboard shortcuts. As I was writing this comment gmail stole my focus and triggered the 'r' (reply) command.
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2008-06-03 08:58 PDT, Erik Arvidsson 		no flags
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Erik Arvidsson
Comment 1 2008-06-03 08:58:29 PDT
Created attachment 21478 [details] Open this in a background tab
Erik Arvidsson
Comment 2 2008-06-03 10:39:38 PDT
I modified the test case a little to call focus() on a textarea in the timer but that does not trigger the focus stealing.
Mark Rowe (bdash)
Comment 3 2008-06-11 00:26:46 PDT
<rdar://problem/5999626>
James Craig
Comment 4 2013-09-30 11:30:33 PDT
Reassigning to Event Handling.
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