I haven't tried your solutions, but I was looking for a way to prevent *Firefox* from stealing focus. It happens specifically, I believe, when I'm on a webpage programmed to update/refresh itself. This happens when I have my work's web-mail page open; there's at least on one other site that I've seen it happen where I spend a fair amount of time (HOTU, in this case). Heck, last night I was playing System Shock 2 (if you know about HOTU, then you know why) when Firefox decided that I needed to know it was refreshing my web-email. A zombie/hybrid nearly took my head off with a wrench! It was very upsetting!

Anywho, I doubt that this is browser related, since I get it with FF and Nana uses IE. I no longer use IE very much (have to for WinXP updates), so I can't confirm (read as: won't). I do have TweakUI set to keep from focus-stealing, but of course, like was already said, it doesn't do it. I'm gonna try this "BringWinTop" program, but I have a feeling what we really need is an extention to FF and IE (yeah right) that keeps pages from refreshing automatically. That seems like a really reasonable setting that must exist somewhere. So if you know how to do that, we'd all be in business and we could stop our computer from trying to think for us!!

thanks
jason.

Hello SleepyJay,

You might try using Proxomitron:

/downloads-cat-19.html

I seem to recall some text in the Proxomitron Help file explaining that auto-refreshing pages and pages that "steal focus" can be caused by web-page scripts, both of which can be filtered out by the standard Proxomitron filter set.