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Asked: 2026-05-17T18:12:05+00:00

I have a page where I open a popup window and the original window

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I have a page where I open a popup window and the original window is supposed to stay usable. In IE and Chrome, I can switch back and forth between the parent and child, but in Firefox, if I click on the parent window, focus goes to the child (which just flashes tauntingly).

I look at Firefox’s popup options, and the only one that seemed relevant is dependent, which wasn’t set. Setting dependant=no didn’t change anything either.

I’m creating my window with:

features = 'location=no,menubar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,status=no,toolbar=no,dependent=no,width=1024,height=894,top=65,left=128';
windowRef = window.open(url, windowName, features);
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  1. Editorial Team

    I figured out what was happening. My original window was created using showModalDialog(), and then I created a new window using window.open() inside of that. For some reason Firefox decided that since the original was modal, the child should be modal too. Time to see if this is a bug or a “feature”.

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