on Sat, Dec 29, 2001 at 06:20:13PM -0800, Jeffrey W. Baker (jwbaker@acm.org) wrote:
> I got galeon 1.0.2 in today's unstable and it has this /tremendously/
> obnoxious behavior. Any window that was opened with a link target (<a
> href="/foo" target="_new">) will automatically raise itself when it
> gains the focus. A R G H. Mozilla proper does not have this
> behavior.
>
> Is anyone else seeing that? I can't get to their mailing list
> archives right now.
AFAIK, this is an old Mozilla bug resulting from brain-deadedness on the
part of the Mozilla team which can't get its collective head (or ass)
around the idea that the user controls the program, not vice versa:
See:
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=59131
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=72313
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=72598
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=72661
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=73911
...among others.
Peace.
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