opening a popup/tab should make it current
Bug #1589090 reported by
Michael Zanetti
This bug affects 1 person
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| webbrowser-app (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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High
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
configuring a wifi router with the Ubuntu browser, I thought the website or browser would not work because clicking links would not do anything. Took me quite a while to find out that clicking that link actually opened popups in new tabs, but because new tabs are not focused by default, and also hidden in the bottom edge when the window is smallish, I opened like 20 popups before even realizing what's going on.
=> when a website opens a new tab or popup (which effectively ends up as a tab in this browser) as response to a user interaction (I actively clicked a link to open it, it wasn't just spam) it should be automatically focused, or, at the very least some clear indication that there has been a new tab opened.
Revision history for this message
| Olivier Tilloy (osomon) wrote | #1 |
| summary: |
- opening a popup/tab should directly focus it + opening a popup/tab should make it current |
| Changed in webbrowser-app (Ubuntu): | |
| importance: | Undecided → High |
| status: | New → Confirmed |
| assignee: | nobody → Olivier Tilloy (osomon) |
| tags: | added: windows |
| Changed in webbrowser-app (Ubuntu): | |
| assignee: | Olivier Tilloy (osomon) → nobody |
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The code that handles new view requests in the browser switches by default to the new tab only if the disposition of the request is DispositionNewF
As a side note, there’s ongoing work to support multiple windows, but I’m not sure yet what we will do with popups.