Quit Stealing my Browser Windows!
These days, a lot of applications open browser windows, for whatever reason. Maybe you clicked on "Help" or "FAQ", and the application politely started an instance of your default browser, displaying whatever it is you wanted to see. And that's great. There's no reason to reinvent the wheel. A web browser is really good at displaying help information, FAQs, and lots of other things.
However, have you ever noticed that if you already have one or more browser windows open, applications will often steal one of those preexisting browser windows? That is, the application has decided that it's time to navigate one of your preexisting browser windows to a different page, rather than opening a new browser window.
Dumb, dumb, dumb.
Happy New Year! :-)
2 comments:
I have found FF is better at not letting people steal windows than IE. Since 2.0 it has gotten even better at opening tabs instead of windows, which is nice because they are easier to close without bothering to look at them. Any clue how Opera does?
That only happens to me with IE 6. Firefox is much smarter about window/tab management.
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