I track Dapper and apt-get dist-upgrade daily. When I perform the sequence of steps detailed by Carthik Sharma I get the same result -- there's a brief flicker, and a new Firefox window opens in the background. (It might be different if I didn't have Firefox already running on another workspace, the smart focus stealing prevention code might position the window of a new Firefox instance on top. I haven't tried it -- new foreground windows are outside the scope of this bug.)
Once gain, I do not object to Firefox opening in the background. My Breezy used to open new Firefox windows in the background too. However there was no flicker at all when I was running breezy (just a new flashing taskbar icon for the new window). I consider this to be a small regression: in breezy a new background window used to appear smoothly, while in dapper it briefly obscurs the foreground window. -- screen flicker when opening background windows https://launchpad.net/bugs/33879 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
