Chrome implement new feature which is called auto tab discarding through this feature enable user when user not on the tab that tab will discard and when user re click on that tab chrome auto refresh that tab. here is the link of Article. this is is very good feature But my problem is I'm showing notification when our tab is active in chrome but because of this feature our Tab is discard and not able to show notifications anymore.
My Question is :- How to Disable this feature or there is any way to keep my tab active or any way to prevent that from discarding?
Users can switch off automatic tab discarding by setting the respective flag in Chrome using this link: chrome://flags/#automatic-tab-discarding
But every page with states depending on user input do have the same problem like yours. Usually, you can prevent unloading a page with handling the onbeforeunload event in JavaScript. Unfortunately, Google does not prevent a solution for this on all systems, despite many users had problems with this feature already in the experimental phase, as you can read in the user comments:
https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2015/09/tab-discarding
For ChomeOS, the problem seams to be fixed:
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=123049
On Android, automatic tab discarding is quite aggressive and prevents using Chrome for applications with significant user input, imho.
On Windows, automatic tab discarding only starts if the available memory is low.
Sorry for not coming up with a proper solution here (I'd be really happy to have one) - I did extensive research and this is all I could find.
I'm using the following code to open a new tab on click of a PDF download.
The problem is the new tab becomes the main tab often before the PDF loads.
How can I make the view stay on the current window (PDF) and open the new tab but not switch to it?
Note: In Chrome and Opera they understand the HTML5 download tag so the PDF simply downloads and the current window redirects - All good! So this is only a problem on IE & Firefox.
<h2 style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://cdn2.hubspot.net/hub/155045/file-847580737-pdf/Stepping_into_a_new_age_of_marketing_with_CRM_FINAL_APPROVED.pdf" onclick="casestudiesopen()" download><strong>Click here to download your eBook</strong></a></h2>
<script>
function casestudiesopen() {
window.open("http://www.workbooks.com/case-studies");
}
</script>
Well, I'll advise you to read this Stackoverflow answer, which is, in a way, quite similar to yours (the purpose anyway) :
Javascript disable switches current tab functionality in browser
JS/JQuery is indeed very powerful but also have its limits. Imagine a web page always requesting and keeping focus once you've opened it. I think you would be really annoyed, among other things.
That's why browsers prevent those kind of actions. Common browsers at least. Meaning, there's no way to prevent a browser like Firefox, Chrome, IE & Co. to focus a table since it depend of user's parameters.
You'll have to find a way to workaround your problem. I can propose this answer since it seems to have worked for the other guy.
Okay, so this is a bit of an odd question. Facebook is trying to remove the feature that hides your profile from search, but requires you hit an accept button before they can remove it. I like my privacy, so instead I just used ABP to hide the dialog box and give me back access to the page. The problem is that scrolling has been disabled, so while I can interact with the content that's currently visible, I can't scroll down. Is there a way to inject HTML or JS that would force-enable scrolling?
Seems as a job for greasemonkey
https://addons.mozilla.org/sv-se/firefox/addon/greasemonkey/
There are similar plugins for other browsers, Chrome have support for users scripts by default but there is a great addon there as well
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/tampermonkey/dhdgffkkebhmkfjojejmpbldmpobfkfo
Internet Explorer can also offer this by adding Trixie
http://trixie.softpedia.com/
If you don't need it all the time and don't want to go to the effort of making a script you could just edit the html directly using either the developer tools built in to most browsers and inspecting the element.
Just right click what you want to change and select inspect element.
Adam
is there a javascript script that auto fullscreen mode the browser? example if you visit my site, the browser will auto fullscreen upon load..
Please, don't do this. You shouldn't resize the browser, that's the user's choice to make.
If I have my browser at a certain size, and your site is one of 20 tabs, why should the other 20 be resized?
If you're using window.open() to open a new window and want to specify a size, that's fine, but don't resize the browser. Most browsers actively block this, for a reason.
I looked into this once and like Nick said browsers do not allow you to control setting fullscreen for security reasons e.g. think malicious website recreating the toolbar to trick users. The closest you can get to it is explaining to the user in a ribbon or popup the first time they visit, how to get to fullscreen and letting them make the decision. Then the trick is check for the keypress on f11 assuming that's how you had the user do it.
The only place I wish it was allowed for the site to go fullscreen is webapps.
I am looking for a way to improve the workflow in a PHP based CMS. There is a lot of switching between the editor mode and the preview mode of the page. The editor mode is huge to load, and so I would like to open the preview mode in a different window.
I don't want to use new windows or an iframe within the current window to keep the workflow simple and to avoid confusion.
Is there a way to explicitly open a new tab (not window), and to jump to that tab from a document, in Firefox? The number of users is limited, so there is the possibility to set up the client with the necessary extensions / permissions.
I know Firefox can be forced to open all links in tabs, but I think that won't cut it, as I still can't address and focus the newly opened window.
Thanks for all the great answers everyone. I have now enough material to decide whether I'll take the greasemonkey approach, rely on the user to set up "open in tabs" and address the window by name, or use a "inline" HTML solution as so many of you suggested. I am accepting the answer that I feel went most effort into.
There is no way to force a window to open as a tab. It's all dependent on the user's preference settings.
I second the answers that say you should do this in HTML using Javascript. Then it can work in all browsers that support JS.
I would put two divs on the page and show/hide each div depending on which tab is selected. If you are clever about this you could trap the click on the tab and determine if the user left-clicked or middle-clicked. If they left click you load that tab on the page. If they middle-click you let the browser open a new tab/window (according to the user's prefs, don't try to force it), and leave the current window unchanged (that is, don't switch to the new tab). The action for clicking on the tab would be to use AJAX to load the contents of the remote document and put it into the tab. Use Javascript to modify the URL before submitting the AJAX request so that the server knows to send a web page fragment instead of the whole page.
The advantage of this dual-natured solution is that the tabbed approach will work the way you want it to work for the majority of cases, but for users with, say, two screens, or who prefer switching between browser tabs, they will still have the flexibility to work in multi-window mode. This can all be done without any browser extensions and it should work equally well in IE as well as Firefox, Opera, etc. Avoid locking yourself into one browser, even one as excellent as Firefox. One day a customer will need to use Opera or Safari and you'll be stuck.
You say you don't want to use an iframe to avoid confusion. Now I don't know about the layout of your website, but I've been using the approach that the editor opens in its own div right next to the content being edited and the content is being live updated as you edit. No need to change tabs.
(If the window is too narrow there are HTML tabs Edit and Preview)
It does not seem to add confusion to the user and for me this approach works really well. Maybe it's worth considering in your case.
What about using iframes and JavaScript?
I know you said you want to avoid 'confusion using iframes', but in my opinion if you really need to load different pages at the same time this is the best option.
In theory, you could create your own tab system using javascript or even better, using jQuery, because its UI module offers pretty cool tab control.
For every tab you could load separate "headerless-footerless" version of your specific admin page inside <iframe> element. If user wanted to modify something different, he will simply click on the tab and bring different iframe.
All this could also be done using AJAX, but iframe solution is quite easy as you just need to load ready page and all postbacks are already handled by original page and separated from master-admin-page.
You might also need to play a little bit to set correct height of your iframe to fit all the content without scrollbars, but this again, is just bit of javascript.
Nope, there's no way to force the opening of a new tab, simply because this would be unsupported by un-tabbed browsing
You can only set it to open a new window, not a new tab.
Greasemonkey springs to mind - a quick google gives open in tabs on left click. I think you could modify that so it only runs on one particular page, and you'd be up up and away.
This question made me wonder if HTML 5 allows that sort of specification, and it doesn't (nothing in one of the other hyperlink attributes, either). A new browsing context is a new browsing context, there's no way to express a preference for tab over window or foreground over background.
You can't force a tab, but if you use a target with a specific name, like target="my_cms_window", many browsers will open this as a new tab. Additionally, they will remember the name and if you use the target repeatedly, put the contents in the same tab. I have found that this works pretty well in the real world.