[Bug 584513] Re: firefox does not take keyboard focus

[Keith Grizzell]

After some extensive searching, I've concluded that this is probably not
a new issue, and in fact may be five years old. That being said, I don't
ever recall having this problem in the previous versions of Ubuntu that
I was using on any of my computers (incl. 9.04 and 8.10). It is a
problem in that it happens on a fresh install, and in that the behavior
is not what happens in Windows (not that that is a good litmus test) nor
what should logically happen. To reproduce, all one has to do is the
following:

1) Start a first instance of firefox. Notice you can type in it.
2) Switch to another program.
3) Start a second instance of firefox. Without clicking in it, notice you cannot type in it. (In fact, with desktop effects off, the second window appears behind the other program.)

Now since I am explicitly starting the second instance, I expect the
focus to go there immediately. This contrasts with the usage scenario
where one might not want it to steal focus when in another application
and clicking on a link.

I am still researching the issue, which may, in fact, be a metacity
issue (I get the same exact behavior with Google chrome and with
SeaMonkey, though I do believe they all share a good deal of code). I
plan to leave this particular bug marked as invalid since I screwed up
in assigning the statuses to it before. I plan to run a few tests, and I
will either find the correct bug this really duplicates, or I will write
a new bug report (especially if this turns out to be a regression), and
I will post a link in the comments here at that time.

FYI, I am planning to install Jaunty in a VirtualBox and see if that
behavior was there (and I was just blind?!) or not.

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firefox does not take keyboard focus
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