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I had no idea wth you were talking about until you mentioned Visual Studio Installer, then I knew immediately what you meant. This is a huge problem for Window

• Someone1234 8y ago
  Open notepad. Press a key over and over. If the key-press stops going to notepad then focus has been transferred/stolen. Firefox's Notification Permission dialog has this behavior within the browser. For example go to Reddit or Facebook, start entering text, the notification permission dialog will appear, steal focus, and now your key-presses go into a black hole. The whole concept of focus-theft is an anti-pattern. Interestingly one mobile operating systems originally designed out but has slowly been creeping back in.
  • adrianmonk 8y ago
    Every time it happens, I feel like Charlie Brown trying to kick that football: https://peanuts.fandom.com/wiki/Football_gag https://peanuts.fandom.com/wiki/Football_gag
• usernam33 8y ago
  Software on Linux is not always better. IntelliJ for example took focus two times on startup for a long time.
• swebs 8y ago
  Steam also has this problem in Linux, though that's the only program I can think of. Opening Steam results in three different windows stealing focus in sequence for no other reason than to tell you that Steam is in the process of opening.
  • kurtisc 8y ago
    4 for me. Updating, logging in, the client, and the ads. I removed it from my panel just so I'd stop waiting for these if I misclicked it.