Re: windows grabbing focus
Lawrence MacIntyre <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.usability.annoyances |
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| Organization | High Performance Information Infrastructure Group |
| Message-ID | <1062691371.1812.161.camel@nautique> |
That's the browser's fault. Try MozillaFirebird, it doesn't do that. It does all lookups in background by default and can also block popups. Note that this is completely OS-independent... It's not a Linux thing. On Thu, 2003-09-04 at 11:54, Michael Rasmussen wrote: > My pet peeve is when a pop-up or alert window grabs focus when its parent application > doesn't have focus. > > Typically this occurs when I go to load a website, see that it is taking a long time and > click to another window to do something else while the site loads or it times out. Then in > the middle of whatever else I'm doing an error message window saying "cannot load site" pops > up. I really don't care, I can check on that when I return to the web browser. If it were > to interrupt other browsing activity that would be fine, but to interrupt whatever you're > doing on the computer is a PITA.
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