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Has anybody noticed that double-clicking on a DMG file no longer raises the mounted image to the front of all windows? It used to be that when you double-clicked a dmg file, it would pop-up but now you have to click Finder and click on the mounted image.
Is this a bug, by design or a setting that I can change?
Update: As per Daniel Beck's suggestion, I created a new account and downloaded the most recent version of Firefox via Safari. It still exhibited the same behavior. However, I noticed that if I double-click thew DMG from within the Downloads folder in Finder, it does pop up. But when I double-click the DMG within Safari (and Firefox also) it does not pop up over all other windows.
1Cannot reproduce. Create a second user account on your machine and try there. What happens? – Daniel Beck – 2012-01-01T10:48:41.753
Also, does it happen with any
.dmg
file or just specific ones? I tried with the Path Finder and Google Chrome images: They all opened new windows. – Daniel Beck – 2012-01-01T10:49:55.170@DanielBeck - How did you open the image? Did you double-click the dmg from Finder or from the browser you downloaded with? – None – 2012-01-08T01:55:14.480
Finder. You're right: When opened from Safari, Safari doesn't let Finder take over focus. It's only frontmost for a very short time until Safari comes forward again. It suffices to
Cmd-Tab
to Finder though, different from what you describe. – Daniel Beck – 2012-01-08T09:10:11.090Similar problem here on 10.8.2 ... Finder does take over focus even when *.dmg file is clicked in the Downloads stack (in Dock) – Petr Peller – 2012-10-08T11:23:26.033