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window.focus() not working in Firefox / Netscape?

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karnaf

karnaf

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yes! this is another of those questions about "Is this not working in Firefox???". I can't help it :)

I have a line in my code that goes:
Code: 
<script type="text/javascript">setTimeout('top.focus()', 10000);</script>

It works great in Internet Explorer 6, but does nothing in FireFox 1.0.7 or Netscape 7.2 :-(

Is it me?
I tried top.focus(), window.focus(), focus(), but nope. nada.

Mind you, I can't bypass this by putting alerts / promts / popups that will force the focus.

Many thanks, as always.
 
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karnaf,

Your code suggests that you are using a frameset, or iframes. Perhaps you could give us a bit more information about your page(s) and structure - otherwise anything we do here will be purely guesswork.

Dan



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That's the sad part :-( I've narrowed it down when trying to figure out what's wrong to the simplest thing possible
Code: 
<html>
<head>
<title>test</title>
</head>
<body>
<script type="text/javascript">setTimeout('window.focus()', 10000);</script>
bla
</body>
</html>

That's the whole page and it still doesn't work :-(
I've tried this on 3 different computers so far and in all I get the same (no) response. Very weird.
This is getting frustrating!

Thanks for your help!!!!!
 
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Oh, and the JavaScript console of FireFox displays no error or warning msg.

10x
 
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still worked for me. check your security settings, check to make sure javascript is enabled, and make sure you really are waiting 10 seconds.



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Do you have any firewall / security software installed, such as Symantec or Norton products? I seem to remember them interfering with JavaScript execution. It would also explain why it works for cLFlaVA with no problem.

As mentioned, though... do check you have JavaScript enabled.

Dan



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