BUG? Mozilla (firefox, thunderbird) and focussing

[Ivo van der Wijk <ivo amaze nl>]

Hi All,

I don't know if this is a known issue - bugzilla is down and google doesn't give 
any interesting hits.

I'm experiencing highly annoying focussing behaviour with sawfish, gnome2 and 
most mozilla based products (browser, firefox, thunderbird). Sometimes, focus 
remains with the wrong (mozilla-) window/application, and I can't manage to get 
the keybord focus on the selected window, except by moving to a different 
desktop and back again. Mouse-focus works fine - I can select menu's, scroll, 
etc. However, firefox seems to use the keyboard focus to determine which window 
to do specific actions on, so for I can for example click the 'reload' button in 
one firefox window, and another window will reload.

All of this happens only with mozilla based applications (it might be a mozilla 
bug), and with sawfish. Other applications/window managers don't seem to suffer 
from this problem.

Some versions:

OS: Linux i386 2.4.18
Dist: debian/unstable
Desktop: gnome2
Sawfish: :1.3+cvs20031104-4
Mozilla thunderbird: 0.5-4
Mozilla firefox: 0.8-3

Please let me know if any additional information is required (.sawfish/custom, etc)

Cheers

	Ivo

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