This just happened to me this morning, after clicking on a couple of links in a message in Thunderbird.
After setting Focus Stealing Prevention on Firefox' window from "Normal" to "High", this behavior stopped. But unfortunately, with "High" now I occasionally get password prompts or similar dialog box which pop up behind firefox, and can easily be missed. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to ubufox in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/272171 Title: Firefox should not steal focus when told by another application to open a link Status in “ubufox” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Binary package hint: firefox-3.0 I have Kubuntu 8.04, firefox 3.0.1 and Evolution 2.22.3.1 As very many people, I subscribe to a lot of lists and newssletters. These have mostly a title for its news and a link to the whole article. When I click on the links, Evolution alwasy goes to firefox while opening a tab and I have to switch back with the icon on the task bar, as many times as I click on links. Correct should be that I can click on all links of interest and then I call firefox's window to see what I want. Cordially, Manfred Mertens ProblemType: Bug Architecture: i386 Date: Fri Sep 19 11:18:47 2008 DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04 NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia Package: firefox-3.0 3.0.1+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.04.3 PackageArchitecture: i386 ProcEnviron: PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games LANG=es_BO.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: firefox-3.0 Uname: Linux 2.6.24-19-generic i686 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubufox/+bug/272171/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
