[opencms-dev] Allow focus on preview popup window in Firefox

[Paul-Inge Flakstad]

Hi guys,

So, you use Firefox and you prefer to work on OpenCms with the workplace in full-screen. You also prefer to have a single preview popup window open all the time.

In the good old days (you know, before you upgraded / re-installed Firefox, switched computers, or whatever):
If your preview window was already opened and minimized to the taskbar, whenever you clicked another page to preview it, that minimized window would correctly get focus and pop up from the taskbar. Instant preview! (Ahh, wasn't that just perfect?)

These days:
For some reason, it seems the preview popup window does not get focus like it should. It just stays put in the task bar. Quite annoying in terms of usability - before you can see the preview of your page, you must first identify the correct window in the task bar (it's of course buried somewhere among the zillions of windows you have open) and then click it.

The solution is ridiculously simple, but slightly hard to spot:
Firefox -> Options -> Content -> Advanced... (next to "Enable JavaScript") -> Check "Raise or lower windows" -> OK -> Done!

Sorry for going somewhat off-topic, posting about Firefox, but maybe I'm not the only one puzzled about the missing focus. Hopefully this will spare some poor souls out there a bunch of needless frustration. :) (Plus, the strangest thing was that "identical" popup stuff worked fine on a whole bunch of sites, so for a good while I thought it was an OpenCms-native issue.)

Cheers,
Paul

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