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Author Topic: Yet another focus-related feature  (Read 5085 times)

lanux128

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Yet another focus-related feature
« on: March 31, 2008, 10:11 PM »
i noticed the ""Hide on lost focus" thread but my request is slightly different. let's say i use Farr to do a web search query; Farr submits the request to the browser then hides. it's all ok but somehow the browser doesn't have the focus (even though it is the top-most window), i have to click on the browser to gain focus of it. so i'm wondering if can Farr do this by automagically and/or is it already available among the options?

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Re: Yet another focus-related feature
« Reply #1 on: April 01, 2008, 01:53 AM »
I will check this, but what FARR *should* be doing is hiding and then launching the url in browser, which should allow the browser to get focus.  But it's possible that I somehow changed this recently by accident.

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Re: Yet another focus-related feature
« Reply #2 on: April 01, 2008, 01:05 PM »
Here the browser gets the focus, even when it's not a new window.

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Re: Yet another focus-related feature
« Reply #3 on: April 02, 2008, 06:50 PM »
My browser gets focus, too.

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Re: Yet another focus-related feature
« Reply #4 on: April 03, 2008, 03:04 AM »
i mainly use Avant Browser which sometimes gets the focus (i have to say most of the time) but sometimes not

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Re: Yet another focus-related feature
« Reply #5 on: April 03, 2008, 08:45 PM »
just a small update: i've managed to get my browser (firefox) come into focus by removing the entry in the "Custom File and Browser Tools". perhaps a check-box next to each entry would be nice, to toggle the usage of custom browsers/filemanagers.