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themoeway / yomitan

Pop-up dictionary browser extension. Successor to Yomichan.
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Native Browser Window Popup pops to front of screen #1284

Open lindseycadwell opened 1 month ago

lindseycadwell commented 1 month ago

Description I have been using Yomichan/Yomitan to immerse with Text to Speech for almost a year. It used to be the case that as long as I had the popup window not minimized, when I search for a new word, the z-index of the popup window would not change.

Suddenly in the last couple of days, the popup window is popping to the front of my screen (higher z-index) every time I do a lookup for periods of time, then during other periods, the new behavior is not present. When the z-index of the window changes without my consent like this, my immersion workflow is completely unusable.

Picture of my workflow: image

You can see that I need the popup window to stay behind my webnovel's text. When it pops to the front it covers up my text like so:

image

I've also noticed that the windows toolbar icon seems to have changed from the yomitan icon to a microsoft edge icon and it's now grouped with my main edge browser window instead of being separate. I'm not sure but I assume whatever caused this change has also caused the issue described above. This change to combine the popup window with my main reading window is also extremely annoying -- but doesn't break my workflow, it just makes switching between discord and immersing take more clicks. Picture: image

I believe the relevant settings for my reading along with TTS workflow are:

I would also love if Yomitan would stop creating brand new popup windows when there's already a popup window open (even if the current popup window is minimized), but that's possibly outside the scope of this issue?

Browser version Microsoft Edge 127.0.2651.74

Yomitan version 24.7.24.0

Exported settings file (If you think it might be relevant, create a settings export file using the Export Settings button on the settings page and attach it to this issue.) yomitan-settings-2024-07-29-21-01-17.json

Kuuuube commented 1 month ago

This doesnt sound like an issue with z-index (at least as far as the webpage can control). But regardless, there are two places total where Yomitan uses variable z-index. Both have not been changed for over 5 months.

The only thing changed recently with window focus is #1194 but that was fixing a somewhat recent regression. It previously functioned that way with focus. If you've been using Yomitan with this workflow for more than about 2 months this also wouldnt be the issue. And if you did develop this workflow that recently it unfortunately only worked because of a bug, not a feature.