Bug 145646

Summary: Konqueror switches back to a tab on popup blocker notification
Product: [Applications] konqueror Reporter: Olivier Vitrat <ovit.debian>
Component: generalAssignee: Konqueror Bugs <konqueror-bugs-null>
Status: RESOLVED UNMAINTAINED    
Severity: normal    
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: 3.5   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Debian stable   
OS: Linux   
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Description Olivier Vitrat 2007-05-18 19:27:23 UTC 
Version:            (using KDE KDE 3.5.5)
Installed from:    Debian stable Packages

Reported in Debian BTS at http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=404586

When opening several sites in tabs, clicking a link in one tab might
cause the site to spawn a pop-up. If the (admittedly very annoying)
passive pop-up notification is turned on, Konqueror will switch back to
the tab where the pop-up happened. So if you're reading a certain story
on a news site while loading a couple of others, suddenly the tab would
switch. 

I understand the notification has no other way to indicate which site it
belongs to but it's very annoying and completely wrong from a usability
perspective, since you suddenly lose all context about where you are and
have to reorient yourself about a) in which tab you are and b) what tab
you were in.

Work-around: turn of the annoying notification window. (Icon on bottom
right of the window)
Comment 2 Janek Bevendorff 2012-06-18 18:10:12 UTC 
Sorry, wrong message. :-)
The message should be:

Message from the Bugsquad and Konqueror teams: This bug is closed as outdated, as we do not have the manpower to maintain the KDE3 version anymore. If you still can reproduce this issue with Konqueror 4.8.4 or later, please open a new report. Thank you for your understanding.