On this slow board, I generally like to open a bunch of windows and read one while waiting for the rest to finish. On my home computer, this is no problem, but on this school computer I keep trying to do it, but then any other window pops to the front when it loads- and not ecen when it is finished, like it pops forward at every stage of loading. I keep having to click on the one I’m reading over and over again until the others stop- which sort of negates what I am trying to accomplish. I have tried to play with the settings, but nothing seems to work. Is there a hidden one I don’t know about?
It may be an IE setting, or it’s possibly caused by some add-in to IE (perhaps spyware). I’d suggest running Ad-Aware and Spybot and see it that fixes it first.
If you can you could try getting hold of TweakUI for your operating system (XP version here) it has a setting “Prevent applications stealing focus” which should stop it.
May I suggest using Firefox, and opening new threads in tabs - it is a lot neater than having a bunch of IE windows open, and doesn’t have the focus problem. This is what I do.
Exactly, and with Opera all the new pages open within a single Opera window, so the taskbar at the bottom of your screen doesn’t get overloaded with zillions of new pages.
Yep, tabbed browsing is one of the best features in more modern browsers - I am so used to browsing forums(go through main page, open threads in tabs) with Firefox that using IE is now painful. I am suprised the Microsoft isn’t adding tabs to IE with Service Pack 2 - it can’t be that hard to do, as third-party add-ons have done, and I know MS is adding pop-up blocking, one of the other key features IE currently lacks compared with Mozilla/Firefox/Opera/ect.
I am suprised the Microsoft isn’t adding tabs to IE with Service Pack 2 - it can’t be that hard to do, as third-party add-ons have done, and I know MS is adding pop-up blocking, one of the other key features IE currently lacks compared with Mozilla/Firefox/Opera/ect.