webbrowser.open steals focus, how to avoid

Question

On Windows, calling webbrowser.open steals the e.g. keyboard input focus, and sets it to the newly opened webbrowser tab.

Is there a way to avoid this, that is: to open the page in the background ?

serv-inc · Accepted Answer · 2024-07-22 11:21:12Z

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The open method has a parameter autoraise=True. If you set this to False,

webbrowser.open('https://example.com', autoraise=False)

it will try to not steal focus, with the heads-up

note that under many window managers this will occur regardless of the setting of this variable.

answered Jul 22, 2024 at 11:21

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