For what it's worth, an answer that bypasses your question:
For most of my browsing tasks, I use dwb
(http://portix.bitbucket.org/dwb/) nowadays. I figured that I prefer
to have my window manager to take care of window/tab management over
some inconsistent and extraneous implementation. There are
some rough edges with sharing cookies among different instances of
the browser and sharing history etc., but those are most likely
due to part of my lack of interest to configure it correctly.
Cheers,
Joep
On Thu, 04 Oct 2012 19:08:55 +0200
Oliver Kiddle <okid...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> Michael Stapelberg wrote:
> > It should only be able to grab focus when it’s on a visible
> > workspace. If it happens when firefox is invisible, that’s not
> > with i3’s help, so nothing we can do about it.
>
> I've got a two monitor setup and assign Firefox to start on one of
> them. So it is often on a visible workspace when I start it.
>
> > Maybe this helps, though?
> > http://www.techsupportalert.com/content/how-stop-firefox-stealing-window-focus.htm
>
> That only helps for the case when I open a URL in an existing
> firefox such as by clicking on one in my e-mail. Thanks for the
> pointer though as that does help a bit.
>
> Oliver
