<![CDATA[Background tabs/windows getting into foreground]]>I have several browser windows open on multiple monitors at any given time. After the update (100.0.4815.31) I've been having an issue with minimized windows moving to the foreground for no obvious reason.

Sometimes it happens immediately after minimizing them, sometimes it it wont do it for hours. There doesn't seem to be any specific action I'm taking or key combination being pressed that prompts it. It doesn't seem to have anything to do with when the page was loaded, or any specific site. They just move to the foreground and steal focus. It often happens with multiple windows popping into the foreground, but sometimes it's just 1.

Any help would be greatly appreciated because this is driving me crazy.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/topic/64037/background-tabs-windows-getting-into-foregroundRSS for NodeSun, 10 May 2026 18:59:12 GMTTue, 04 Jul 2023 20:26:37 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Background tabs/windows getting into foreground on Wed, 19 Jul 2023 12:26:15 GMT]]>@northsider Yes that fixed it. Thank you 🙂

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/318481https://forums.opera.com/post/318481Wed, 19 Jul 2023 12:26:15 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Background tabs/windows getting into foreground on Tue, 18 Jul 2023 18:59:59 GMT]]>@donq

I'm always confused when Ctrl+F does not work on this forum for page search.

Inside a thread it only searches natively the thread content and not the page.

Also missing out the normal yellow/green highlighting.

Edit: Noticed I had "Enable In-Topic Searching" active in settings.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/318419https://forums.opera.com/post/318419Tue, 18 Jul 2023 18:59:59 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Background tabs/windows getting into foreground on Tue, 18 Jul 2023 18:09:33 GMT]]>@deurotelle said in Background tabs/windows getting into foreground:

@northsider After a couple of days, I like Brave as well as I used to like Opera-

About Brave - have they implemented in-page search with just hitting a dot (.) or not? Last time I tried (few years ago) this was not possible. Over the long years I have got used to that... Ctrl+F does not qualify 😞 🙂

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/318417https://forums.opera.com/post/318417Tue, 18 Jul 2023 18:09:33 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Background tabs/windows getting into foreground on Tue, 18 Jul 2023 11:16:42 GMT]]>@vegelund lol...
always want to help others who stubbornly cling to her

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/318374https://forums.opera.com/post/318374Tue, 18 Jul 2023 11:16:42 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Background tabs/windows getting into foreground on Tue, 18 Jul 2023 11:14:25 GMT]]>@northsider After a couple of days, I like Brave as well as I used to like Opera- one issue is clearing cache is more than one menu, but I figured it out- you have to hit the three-dashes on the far left and go down to 'more tools' or remember it's control+shift+delete to open it.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/318373https://forums.opera.com/post/318373Tue, 18 Jul 2023 11:14:25 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Background tabs/windows getting into foreground on Tue, 18 Jul 2023 11:12:52 GMT]]>@deurotelle

Now you are hanging around her place. We thought you moved on.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/318372https://forums.opera.com/post/318372Tue, 18 Jul 2023 11:12:52 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Background tabs/windows getting into foreground on Tue, 18 Jul 2023 11:10:03 GMT]]>@vegelund Except I didn't bother to call her.....

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/318371https://forums.opera.com/post/318371Tue, 18 Jul 2023 11:10:03 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Background tabs/windows getting into foreground on Tue, 18 Jul 2023 00:03:42 GMT]]>@deurotelle Thank you for the recommendation. I just downloaded it and will soon give it a go.

Opera has lost a lot of credibility now by force updating something this big apparently without proper testing and dogfooding. Did anyone use this browser at all before release? And the sheer arrogance of decisions like taking away the home button (bothers me continuously) and introducing that horrible sound effect. I am glad I wasn't wearing my headset just now because I could hear it loud even though the headset lies on the desk.

If you have a monopoly on certain things like Microsoft, then messing with your users by changing everything for no reason and making them lose productivity by making them figure out how to do things they already learned to do several times is okay. But browsers aren't the same.

But great to hear they fixed that problem that should have never shipped unless it only affected a small segment of the users.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/318316https://forums.opera.com/post/318316Tue, 18 Jul 2023 00:03:42 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Background tabs/windows getting into foreground on Mon, 17 Jul 2023 23:40:20 GMT]]>@franta99 It is fixed. Go to your main menu and, check Update & Recovery or the equivalent in your language and check for updates. It is a bit buggy, so you may have to restart once manually, go back to Update & Recovery, and then restart again from a button that appears.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/318308https://forums.opera.com/post/318308Mon, 17 Jul 2023 23:40:20 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Background tabs/windows getting into foreground on Mon, 17 Jul 2023 19:51:30 GMT]]>Please fix, it is annoying 😞

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/318294https://forums.opera.com/post/318294Mon, 17 Jul 2023 19:51:30 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Background tabs/windows getting into foreground on Mon, 17 Jul 2023 15:44:37 GMT]]>@vegelund Yup, "cancel culture" at its best! Maybe once Brave has a problem they'll work their way around all the other browsers until they all have problems and eventually come back to Opera! 🤦🏻♂ 😁

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/318238https://forums.opera.com/post/318238Mon, 17 Jul 2023 15:44:37 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Background tabs/windows getting into foreground on Mon, 17 Jul 2023 14:47:02 GMT]]>@deurotelle

That post is like calling your ex to tell her you are over her.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/318229https://forums.opera.com/post/318229Mon, 17 Jul 2023 14:47:02 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Background tabs/windows getting into foreground on Mon, 17 Jul 2023 15:16:12 GMT]]>I tried for a week to fix this ; updated, went on a rabbithole search into obscure settings...Nope. i finally fixed it- I made Brave my default browser.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/318228https://forums.opera.com/post/318228Mon, 17 Jul 2023 15:16:12 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Background tabs/windows getting into foreground on Mon, 17 Jul 2023 14:08:40 GMT]]>@elljay23 Thanks for all

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/318257https://forums.opera.com/post/318257Mon, 17 Jul 2023 14:08:40 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Background tabs/windows getting into foreground on Mon, 17 Jul 2023 13:40:29 GMT]]>Happy to say the latest release has fixed this issue!

The very tacky animated "O" is still there on startup, but this one's fixed... 😛 😂

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/318225https://forums.opera.com/post/318225Mon, 17 Jul 2023 13:40:29 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Background tabs/windows getting into foreground on Mon, 17 Jul 2023 07:46:17 GMT]]>@leocg Thanks for confirming! 🙂

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/318191https://forums.opera.com/post/318191Mon, 17 Jul 2023 07:46:17 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Background tabs/windows getting into foreground on Mon, 17 Jul 2023 02:14:46 GMT]]>@taffercharles It's a bug.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/318146https://forums.opera.com/post/318146Mon, 17 Jul 2023 02:14:46 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Background tabs/windows getting into foreground on Mon, 17 Jul 2023 01:12:27 GMT]]>@northsider Yeah I got a feeling it isn't so much a glitch but opera just wants this to slide under the radar. Probably some mid supervisor got congratulated and patted in the back for this %#&# idea of his.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/318138https://forums.opera.com/post/318138Mon, 17 Jul 2023 01:12:27 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Background tabs/windows getting into foreground on Sun, 16 Jul 2023 08:40:23 GMT]]>I agree this is a complete pain in the @$%! 🙂

CPU utilisation also seems to run high if I've got windows open with meta refresh tags. I can make CPU go back down if I close / hold "ESC" on the auto refreshing tabs to stop their refresh cycle.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/318077https://forums.opera.com/post/318077Sun, 16 Jul 2023 08:40:23 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Background tabs/windows getting into foreground on Fri, 14 Jul 2023 17:32:27 GMT]]>There have been Opera updates since and still this is not fixed!! Omg is so annoying. Think I'm going to switch to another browser temporary.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/317870https://forums.opera.com/post/317870Fri, 14 Jul 2023 17:32:27 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Background tabs/windows getting into foreground on Fri, 14 Jul 2023 16:27:40 GMT]]>This doesn't look like it's a bug necessarily but a horrible design decision. Either way, it needs to be fixed because it makes the browser unusable to people who like to open links in the background. For instance, if I read a Wikipedia article, I often open links in the background so I can read them next when I finish reading what I have open now. That does not work now because as long as a new page is loading, I am not allowed to read the original one.

It is a disaster that the user is not allowed to control what page they want to be on. Imagine a streaming service was interrupting you watching a movie by switching over to some TV show every few minutes.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/317888https://forums.opera.com/post/317888Fri, 14 Jul 2023 16:27:40 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Background tabs/windows getting into foreground on Fri, 14 Jul 2023 14:29:42 GMT]]>Please find a fix

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/317850https://forums.opera.com/post/317850Fri, 14 Jul 2023 14:29:42 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Background tabs/windows getting into foreground on Fri, 14 Jul 2023 09:31:04 GMT]]>@jasongr Same here. Version 100.0.4815.47. When a background tab refreshes itself Opera is bringing that tab to the foreground. Please fix.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/317813https://forums.opera.com/post/317813Fri, 14 Jul 2023 09:31:04 GMT