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Whenever a notification pops up while I'm typing, the text field deselects

Sterling, Six
Sterling, Six
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Had to click the text field 3 times just to write title to this post because I made a post on Twitter that's getting a bunch of interaction. Notifications take the cursor focus away from the text input field whether that's on a site or the search bar or the address bar. Very annoying. Windows 10, latest version of Firefox, but it also happened with the previous version. Please help!

Had to click the text field 3 times just to write title to this post because I made a post on Twitter that's getting a bunch of interaction. Notifications take the cursor focus away from the text input field whether that's on a site or the search bar or the address bar. Very annoying. Windows 10, latest version of Firefox, but it also happened with the previous version. Please help!

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Change alerts.useSystemBackend to true in about:config then restart the browser.

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zeroknight
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Chosen Solution

Change alerts.useSystemBackend to true in about:config then restart the browser.

Sterling, Six
Sterling, Six Question owner
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This kind of messes with my Twitter notifications but at least I can type uninterrupted, so thank you!