Click button/link in out of focus window to bring focus AND select button

example: firefox and mail are both open; mail is in front and ff is in back, out of focus but visible. there's a website open in ff, and I'm reading a mail message. I want to click on a link in the open ff page, but mail has focus. I must click the ff link TWICE (once to bring ff to focus, and once to then click the link). on a windows machine, all the buttons and links in all visible apps are always "live", so this annoyance doesn't happen. can it be fixed in tiger?

I believe this is considered correct behavior for Mac apps, despite the few that don't behave this way. It would all too easy to try to click on a mostly-hidden window to bring it to the top and accidentally click on something important - like an "Okay" or "Cancel" button. Things like buttons and links are only SUPPOSED to be "clickable" in the frontmost window, for user safety reasons.
For consistency, the rule applies whether or not the second window is mostly hidden, mostly visible, or whatever. Think of the confusion that "sometimes it takes one click, sometimes it takes two clicks" would engender!
By contrast, more than once I've done something unwanted (but so far not terribly destructive) in Windows when I was trying to change window focus but instead did something in that mostly hidden window.
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