Bug#478981: Closing wontfix bugs

[Vincent Lefevre]

Control: reopen -1 478981

On 2014-02-24 11:57:50 +0100, Sylvestre Ledru wrote:
> I am closing all these bugs because they have been tagged as wontfix
> for a while (for 10 years for some of them).
> 
> If you believe they should remain open, please reopen them.

Well, I'm reopening bug 478981 because I think it has been closed
for a wrong reason. Indeed, there is no longer an upstream bug yet.
What happens is that in

  https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=263553

someone (who was not the bug reporter) decided that changing some
about:config pref (browser.tabs.loadDivertedInBackground) was OK
for him and that all that was missing was an UI pref:

  https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=263553#c22

  │Changing that setting in about:config worked for me. Now, the thing
  │is to get it into a preference so it is easy to turn on and off as
  │necessary. This should go under Tools:Options:Tabs. Thanks.

Then some developer replied, saying that a UI pref wasn't needed
and suggested WONTFIX:

  https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=263553#c30

  │This will not block Firefox 3.6. In fact, if I'm understanding this
  │correctly:
  │
  │> Changing that setting in about:config worked for me. Now, the
  │> thing is to get it into a preference so it is easy to turn on and
  │> off as necessary. This should go under Tools:Options:Tabs. Thanks.
  │
  │my inclination would be to WONTFIX."

Then the bug was closed as WONTFIX in

  https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=263553#c32

with the comment:

  │This is not a suitable default behavior, and I don't think it's
  │commonly desired enough to add as an option (on some platforms
  │it may not even be doable).

I'm not sure what the developer meant here, but

1. We are not asking this to be the default behavior, just for an
   option.

2. About "on some platforms it may not even be doable", it's doable
   with Linux / Xorg, and inferior platforms shouldn't dictate how
   Firefox/Iceweasel should work here.

Perhaps a new upstream bug should be open, with a unambiguous
description and restricted to the Linux platform (in upstream
bug 263553, it is set to "All").

Now, there may be workarounds to this problem, such as configuring
the window manager to discard the EWMH hint (when possible). With
fvwm, one can modify the EWMHActivateWindowFunc function, but one
can just avoid the "Focus". I suspect that Firefox does more than
activating the window, but also raises the window explicitly.

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