[Bug 345872] [NEW] new firefox windows steal keyboard focus despite showing up in the background

[Marius Gedminas]

Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: compiz

In Intrepid:

1) make sure Firefox is running
2) open gnome-terminal
3) type 'firefox', press Enter.

What happens:

* the existing Firefox instance opens a new window *behind* gnome-terminal
* that new background Firefox window *steals keyboard focus*

This is surprising, especially when your gnome-terminal is maximized.

What should happen:

* Firefox should open a window in the background and not get keyboard
focus (option A)

or

* Firefox should open a new window on top of other windows and get
keyboard focus (option B).

I prefer option (A) to option (B), because software that steals focus is
bad (and in my particular use case it's an automated test suite that
opens a firefox window several seconds after I started the test suite).

Extra info:
  * in CompizConfig Settings Manager I have: click to focus not set, focus prevention level: low, focus prevention windows: any.
  * in Firefox preferences I have: open new pages in a new window

** Affects: compiz (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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