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Sometimes I type a password into one window, only to have another window pop up partway through and eat the rest of my input. This is why we need to prevent unintentional window activation.


It is relatively easy to replicate if you open 2 apps and start typing in the first one which opened, both on macOS and Windows (I don't use Linux enough to notice this issue).

A proper solution is probably faster startup times, but overall it pretty much never happens? Idk maybe I'm lucky or just conditioned to ignore it.


This happens so rarely, that it makes the UX impact to the every day user not worth it in my opinion.


Fellow macOS users: is this rare for you as well?

Maybe an auto-updater will do this, and if it happened with any frequency I might disable those autoupdates and try a macro-based (e.g. Keyboard Maestro) solution.


Windows stealing focus happens to me multiple times a day on Windows when I'm working.

It's infuriating.




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