[Bug 41623] Re: Firefox windows do not get focus when launched

[Enola Gay]

This bug still exists and it is very annoying and confusing. The biggest problem is that people who don't know this think the application isn't started or link wasn't open. If I open a link in mail program. im or something like that and Firefox is not running it is started and gets a focus. But if Firefox is already running the link gets loaded in Firefox but the mail program still has the focus so you think nothing happens. The most annoying problem is that Firefox opens for some operation like downloads a new window. If you change back to main Firefox and click another download which appears in the opened popup you have to change manually to it.
Afaik this doesn't happen in KDE so it is a Gnome issue.

If someones want to check it.
1. Open Nautilus and make it full screen.
2. Open a video in Totem.
3. Change back to Nautilus.
4. Start another video with Totem.
=> Totem plays the new video but doesn't get focused. This happens for every application which is already running and allows only one instance (and doesn't have a workaround I guess). It is very likely that people click several times on a file until they realize.

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Firefox windows do not get focus when launched
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/41623
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