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Status: Duplicate
Merged: issue 798792
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Closed: Jan 2018
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Type: Bug-Regression



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Chrome is grabbing focus like whoa

Project Member Reported by rdsmith@chromium.org, Jan 29 2018

Issue description

Chrome Version: 64.0.3282.119 (Official Build) beta (64-bit)
OS: Mac OS X 10.13.2

What steps will reproduce the problem?

Sadly, I don't have a clean repro.  But I use Mac spaces a lot, and I'm used to staying on the same mac space unless I (the user) changes it.  There are occasional exceptions to this, but mostly spaces stay unchanged.  However, over the last week (?) I've regularly had my mac space changed on me to focus on a Chrome window on a different space.  Sometimes that looks like it's because a particular tab grabbed focus (e.g. I was just pulled over to my gmail window as it updated).  But other times I have no idea why Chrome wanted my attention.

What is the expected result?

I rarely if ever get pulled across mac spaces.  I'd be happy for my use case with "never", but I'd also be comfortable with "Only when user interaction is required to complete a previously user-initiated operation" (which is how I thought of when it happened before this point).

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My apologies for not having more details; if there are experiments I can do, let me know.


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Comment 1 by peter@chromium.org, Jan 29 2018

Cc: a...@chromium.org
Avi - could this be due to your work on focus changes?
Other data that might be useful: 
* I was on the same space as my gmail window but on a different tab, and I noticed I got the little dot indicating a tab update, but without the focus changing to that tab.  It was the same space so I don't know if it wouldn't have pulled me across, but maybe tabs only grab focus if they're the active tab?

* I just got pulled across spaces to a New Tab Page.  I had just come from that space (and had probably done something on it that provoked the new tab page which I don't remember) but it might be a useful data point that this can happen with the active tab being NTP.

Comment 3 by a...@chromium.org, Jan 29 2018

Cc: lgrey@chromium.org ellyjo...@chromium.org sdy@chromium.org
My work on focus changes was to remove them from alert dialogs :(

To clarify, you're getting pulled across spaces while you're working in a different tab in Chrome? Or when you're working outside of Chrome?

+ a few Mac peeps who might also have some ideas.

Comment 4 by a...@chromium.org, Jan 29 2018

Cc: erikc...@chromium.org

Comment 5 by sdy@chromium.org, Jan 29 2018

Owner: sdy@chromium.org
Status: Assigned (was: Untriaged)
This is almost certainly  issue 798792 , which has a fix landed but not in M64. I’m on my phone so will write more when I’m at a computer.

Comment 6 by sdy@chromium.org, Jan 29 2018

Mergedinto: 798792
Status: Duplicate (was: Assigned)
That issue boils down to:
- We changed how the status bubble is shown in M64.
- Apple broke the new way (by making it switch spaces) in 10.13.

The fix is in M65. I'm going to continue this in the other bug.

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