Safari changes active tab by itself....

[ScottSyrNY]

I'll have multiple tabs open in Safari and when a certain tab (foxnews.com) refreshes, Safari will automatically switch to that tab regardless of what I'm doing. This also happens when Safari is minimized and/or I'm working in another program...Safari will pop to the forefront with foxnews tab showing. My MBP is only a week and a half old and this did not happen for the first week I owned it. As you can imagine, it's extremely annoying.

Is my Safari possessed? I don't recall changing any settings that would make this happen.

Plz help!!

 

[Eidorian]

Some sites have code that'll tell the browser to make it the foreground window or tab regardless of what you're doing.

 

[rdowns]

Some crappy "news" sites have code that'll tell the browser to make it the foreground window or tab regardless of what you're doing.

Fixed that for you.

I just tried it and it happened to me too. Another reason not to visit foxnews.com

 

[ScottSyrNY]

Well that's just not right.

But would that apply in this case, since it didn't happen for the first week I owned the computer? I used Safari on my Dell and this never happened. Even in the middle of typing this reply my tab just changed over to foxnews.com tab....wtf....it's possessed.

 

[ScottSyrNY]

Fixed that for you.

I just tried it and it happened to me too. Another reason not to visit foxnews.com

Oh wow....did it to you too? That is a terrible thing to do to viewers of their site....i have to say I'm surprised.

 

[theLimit]

Fox News just wants to be sure you get the latest biased info on every "news" story the feel the need to cover.

 

[clevin]

how often does it refresh? Coz i didn't see this with firefox for ....... 10 minutes?

edit, no it doesn't do this in firefox, I noticed the activity indicator on the tab, but no auto switching.