[Bug 787807] Re: External links do not change focus to Firefox

[gldickens3]

Just to clarify, Firefox is designated as my Web Browser in System >
Preferences > Prefered Applications. Secondly, in Firefox's
about:config, the parameter "browser.tabs.loadDivertedInBackground" is
already set to false. Also, I have run Firefox in safe mode and I have
uninstalled/reinstalled Firefox to a fresh blank profile but in all
cases external links do not change the focus to Firefox. However, if I
set the browser to Chromium in Preferences > Preferred Applications then
external links do change focus to Chromium.

I have done quite a bit of testing with new users created in empty home
directories.  I found that this problem does not exist for new users
that I create on my computer if the user is running Unity. That is, if I
create a new user on my system then the external links do properly
change focus to Firefox for the new user when running Unity.  The
problem occurs only when I am running Ubuntu Classic (not running
Unity). That is, when I create a brand new user in an empty directory
then external links do not focus properly on Firefox if I am not running
Unity (Ubuntu). Whereas, when I am running Unity (Ubuntu Classic) then
external links do focus properly on Firefox.

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Title:
  External links do not change focus to Firefox