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Madrag · Aug 1, 2005, 04:38 AM

hello all,

with the Tiger (10.4.2) installed, I've been struggling to understand if this is a bug or if I'm getting mad...

here goes:

1. open safari (or other app)
2. open at least two windows (let's call it A and B)
3. you've been browsing window A, and switch to window B
4. hide safari
5. go back to safari, and you'll see that window B is the frontmost (as expected)
6. now, click in window A and browse a little (or not, doesn't matter)
7. hide safari
8. go back to safari, and the frontmost window is window B again (should be A)

This only happens when hiding...

That has been happening to me, and is very annoying, because I may need to go to another app and when returning, the frontmost window is not the last visited...

It's not just safari, also dreamweaver, (and also when previewing a web page from dreamweaver, the preview goes to the back of any window already there...)

Has this happened to anyone else?

How do I solve this?

Maflynn · Aug 1, 2005, 06:07 AM

Originally Posted by Madrag

with the Tiger (10.4.2) installed, I've been struggling to understand if this is a bug or if I'm getting mad...

You could use a single Safari window with tabs, that will solve that problem. To me it doesn't sound like a huge deal. Why do you hide safari?

Perhaps if I hid applications it would bother me but I don't use that functionality - personal preference.

Regards
Mike

Madrag · Aug 1, 2005, 06:11 AM

I don't use tabs but even if I did, that still doesn't fix it in dreamweaver, because the same inconsistency is happening in that app.

Even if I used tabs, as said previously, when previewing a web page, the page will happear behind any open safari window...

andreas_g4 · Aug 1, 2005, 06:47 AM

Doesn't happen to me...

Madrag · Aug 1, 2005, 06:50 AM

I have no extras installed, my system is the standard one

Judge_Fire · Aug 1, 2005, 07:50 AM

Yeah, it seems to be a bug.

Please report it through the 'Report bugs to Apple…' in the Safari menu.

J

TETENAL · Aug 1, 2005, 07:52 AM

Originally Posted by Madrag

Has this happened to anyone else?

Yes, this was reported here already some time ago. I could reproduce it back then and I can still reproduce it in 10.4.2.

CaptainHaddock · Aug 1, 2005, 09:33 AM

Hm, I cannot reproduce this bug. Sounds weird.

cla · Aug 1, 2005, 09:52 AM

Originally Posted by Madrag

here goes:

1. open safari (or other app)
2. open at least two windows (let's call it A and B)
3. you've been browsing window A, and switch to window B
4. hide safari
5. go back to safari, and you'll see that window B is the frontmost (as expected)

I didn't even have to go this far. For me, window A is the frontmost (as UNexpected)...

For those of you unable to reproduce the bug: Pay attention as to the order in which you create the two windows.

You could use a single Safari window with tabs, that will solve that problem. To me it doesn't sound like a huge deal. Why do you hide safari?

These are the kind of answers that make me yearn for a forum for interaction designers... =)

mAxximo · Aug 1, 2005, 11:53 AM

Originally Posted by cla

These are the kind of answers that make me yearn for a forum for interaction designers... =)

LOL I thought kind of the same...

Madrag · Aug 1, 2005, 01:17 PM

This bug isn't only in safari (at least dreamweaver MX 2004 has the same bug), so I won't submit it through the safari bug report...

That's one reason why I posted this topic in this forum and not in the apps forum.