Re: windows grabbing focus

Lawrence MacIntyre <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.usability.annoyances
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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