In Firefox 17 the setting browser.tabs.loadDivertedInBackground works no
more.
Really annoying!
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Title:
Firefox should not steal focus when told
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
Fount it. There is a setting browser.tabs.loadDivertedInBackground in
about:config , just set this to true, and firefox won't steal your focus
any more when loading links in background.
(Thanks to this site http://www.techsupportalert.com/content/how-stop-
firefox-stealing-window-focus.htm for
I just wanted to say I found the comments in this (old) bug so very
helpful. I am one on the opposite camp, though ... I do want Firefox
to open and display the links I click on in other apps. And, I know it
did used to work that way ... not sure when it changed. Fortunately, I
use compiz and
I have just upgraded to 10.04 w/Firefox 3.6.3 and first encountered this
issue of Firefox stealing focus. This is EXACTLY what it was doing in
9.04 and is supposed to be the way anyone would expect it to act: you
perform an action (click a link) and expect a result (link is shown).
Simple cause
This seems more important than wishlist, though I think the proper
solution would be to add a configuration option to Firefox's settings
for this.
To reproduce, I have to simply click a link from gnome-terminal. Firefox
will always steal focus.
The fix suggested works, but also changes the
I can confirm this bug.
Here's the workaround :
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox-3.0/+bug/219812/comments/2
browser.tabs.loadDivertedInBackground should be set to true
It should be trivial to change this value in ubufox.
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Firefox should not steal focus when told by another
I created a debdiff to fix this issue in intrepid's version of ubufox. This is
my first debdiff. I used this guide :
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PackagingGuide/Recipes/Debdiff
ubufox (0.6~pre+bzr141-0ubuntu2) intrepid; urgency=low
* fix LP: #272171 - Firefox should not steal focus when told by
Great, the false/true-Workaround works fine for me (Evolution,
Liferea, etc)
Regards
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Same thing was happening to me with Thuderbird links opening FF3.0.1 tabs, and
FF stealing focus.
A solution which worked for me is to go into FF about:config and set
preference: 'browser.tabs.loadDivertedInBackground' to 'true'.
Does this help?
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Firefox should not steal focus when told by
Thanks for the comments and support. I'm not very technical with Linux,
but I changed to KMail and then all worked fine. Ergo, Evolution was
stealing the focus.
Regards,
Manfred
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Firefox should not steal focus when told by another application to open a link
Mackenzie - I can't actually reproduce this bug at all on my machine.
For me, Firefox never steals focus when I click on links in Evolution,
regardless of which workspaces the two applications are on.
I'm not sure that this is a Firefox bug as opposed to a window manager
bug. This behaviour is
I haven't looked in Compiz's focus stealing prevention settings. I know
using Compiz and Firefox, Firefox doesn't let go of focus when the
workspace changes, so the window on top of which the mouse sits doesn't
get focus even when using focus follows mouse.
I don't use Metacity, but I know with
** Summary changed:
- Firefox steals focus when told by another application to open a link
+ Firefox should not steal focus when told by another application to open a link
** Changed in: firefox-3.0 (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided = Wishlist
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