window.focus(), self.focus() not working in firefox

Question

Hi all i am developing a chat application ... i have multiple chat windows ... i want to know which windw contain new message ... i have the following code ..

function getCount()
{
    $.ajax({
       type: "POST",
       url: baseUrl + '/Chat/count',
       data: "chat_id=" + document.ajax.chat_id.value,
       success: function(msg){
                if(msg == 'new1') {
                    self.focus();
                                            //window.focus();

                }
            }
    });
}

If an operator attending both chat....

for example the url is like http://localhost/nisanth/admin/Chat/index/chatId/15 http://localhost/nisanth/admin/Chat/index/chatId/16

http://localhost/nisanth/user/Chat/index/chatId/15 http://localhost/nisanth/user/Chat/index/chatId/16

if the user 16 enter a message i need focus

http://localhost/nisanth/admin/Chat/index/chatId/16

This code is work fine with IE but not in firefox...please give me a solution... the above code is in the same html

Answer 1

Firefox will only obey requests to raise a window if a security option is set, and it's not set by default. Chrome won't pay attention to focus() requests at all, as far as I can tell. Safari does obey focus() request.

The specific Firefox setting is in the "Tools -> Options" dialog. There's a "Content" tab, and in that there's a checkbox for enabling Javascript. Along with that is an "Advanced" button that brings up another dialog, wherein one finds a checkbox to allow (or disallow) the raising and lowering of windows by page code.

edit: Here is a test page: http://gutfullofbeer.net/focus1.html and you should be able to see that Firefox will raise a window when the page calls window.focus(). You must either have the browser set up so that new windows (created with window.open()) open up in a new separate window instead of a tab, or else you can tear off the tab of the secondary page when it opens.