RFE: Never, ever steal focus.

Zing zing at fastmail.fm
Wed Jan 6 19:38:51 UTC 2010


On Wed, 06 Jan 2010 11:53:21 -0500, Gregory Maxwell wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 10:00 AM, nodata <lsof at nodata.co.uk> wrote:
>> I'd like to suggest an enhancement for Fedora 13: nothing should ever
>> steal focus from the window I am typing in. If I am typing in a shell
>> window, or in a word processor, or an e-mail, nothing should ever take
>> keyboard focus away from that window.
>>
>> Clearly I'm missing something, otherwise we would have this, hence the
>> posting to the list :)
> 
> Firefox's focus stealing constantly drives me nuts.  Trigger something

Sadly this mind raging feature has infected SeaMonkey 2.0 now.  I used to 
be able to open links in tabs in the background from other apps, now it 
happily and proudly pops to the foreground and steals focus. sigh.




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