F9: evolution mail with URL

[John Horne]

On Tue, 2008-05-27 at 13:24 -0700, Rick Stevens wrote:
> John Horne wrote:
> > On Tue, 2008-05-27 at 14:32 -0400, Andrew Parker wrote:
> >> On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 11:45 AM, John Horne <john.horne at plymouth.ac.uk> wrote:
> >>> Hello,
> >>>
> >>> I have noticed with F9, using Evolution mail client, that if a message
> >>> contains a web URL and I click on it (the URL), Firefox is started up
> >>> but remains 'minimised' in the taskbar. That is, it doesn't open up and
> >>> show me the web page until I click on the Firefox icon in the taskbar.
> >>>
> >>> Since I clicked on the URL in the mail message, I would have thought it
> >>> somewhat obvious that I want to look at the web page :-) I could see no
> >>> options in Evolution or Firefox about this.
> >>>
> >>> Anyone else notice this, or have a fix for it?
> >> Are you sure its minimised and not just underneath Evolution?
> >>
> > Not sure what you mean by 'underneath'. How would I tell?
> 
> Try minimizing Evolution and see if the web page is displayed.  If so,
> then Firefox was open, but its screen was "under" the Evolution screen.
>
Ah, I've got you. Okay, yes the web page is underneath Evolution.
However, if I have no browsers open, and click on a URL in a message,
then firefox is on top of Evolution. If I click on the URL again, the
second (or more) browsers are underneath Evolution. So the first browser
appears on 'top', but all others are underneath. I'm not sure if it is
possible to tell firefox to always be on top, but even if it is is it
something that would always be wanted? (Probably yes, if you click on a
url then it is no doubt to see the web page?)


John.

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