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Prevent Firefox alert pop-up window from stealing focus from other tabs

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When a website is unavailable an alert pop's up and takes focus even when you are on another tab. I would like to know how to disable or prevent this from happening, maybe an about:config setting or something ?

When a website is unavailable an alert pop's up and takes focus even when you are on another tab. I would like to know how to disable or prevent this from happening, maybe an about:config setting or something ?

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You can check the pref browser.xul.error_pages.enabled on the about:config page and make sure that the value is set to the true (default).

See http://kb.mozillazine.org/about%3Aconfig

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AlexGR1987
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Here is a picture

cor-el
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You can check the pref browser.xul.error_pages.enabled on the about:config page and make sure that the value is set to the true (default).

See http://kb.mozillazine.org/about%3Aconfig

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great worked perfectly  :D