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window.focus() exits HTML5 fullscreen

Category

JavaScript

Type

New or changed feature

Status

Browser Intervention (Chrome 66)

Intent stage

None

Summary

If a page in fullscreen mode opens a popup and calls window.focus(), that page will exit full screen. This will not occur if the popup receives focus some other way.

Standards & signals

• Firefox: No signal
• Safari: No signal
• Web developers: No signals
• Tracking bug: https://crbug.com/800056

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