I should note that none of these activities were undertaken in response to this particular issue: first, because its intermittent nature makes evaluating the success of any proposed antidote problematic, but second, because it feels to me more like a bug in the OS whose conditions for reproducibility I have yet to understand.įurthermore, though I haven't documented the occasions, my recollection is that the issue isn't confined to Finder I believe that in at least a couple of instances, Activity Monitor refused to yield the menubar to Camino or Safari until the browser's Dock icon was clicked on. This phenomenon is unpredictable, and has persisted in its intermittent way over many months of running OS X 10.5, surviving system updates (I'm currently at 10.5.8), browser updates, and a whole range of activities thought by some to address inexplicable symptoms (disk repair, permissions repair, etc.). (I haven't had the presence of mind to try Command-Tabbing my way to Finder in such a case as yet.) I need to click on Finder's Dock icon to exit this no-active-app limbo. The browser window becomes dimmed, as expected, but no Finder window appears, and the browser menubar remains in place. I click on the Desktop, intending to make Finder active (say, to bring to the front an already-open Finder window). It typically happens when I'm in a browser (either Camino 2.0.1 or Safari 4.0.4). The basic issue is the failure of Finder to become frontmost when the Desktop is clicked on. ![]() ![]() This issue was touched on a time or two in the MFI Forums, but I've thus far been unable to track down a relevant thread.
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