9.10. Debug Corner: Catching Unexpected Commands
When the command system and the focus system of the Mozilla Platform interact, some very subtle problems can occur. It is very important that the focus is correctly set up when a XUL window first appears. This means a call to window.focus(), or window.content.focus(). Such a call is less necessary in recent versions, but it remains good defensive programming.
If this is not done, and an application that has or acquires focus problems is run, then it is possible for both the Mozilla Platform and the desktop environment to become confused. Just shutting down the platform is not always enough. On Microsoft Windows at least, sometimes it is also necessary to reboot in order to clean out problems that ...
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