New Window Opening Behind Browser Window

I have produced a page in DW3 for an artist where you click
on a thumbnail and it opens a new window with an enlargement of
that image. (I use the DW3 javascript behaviour to do this).
When I test it on my browsers the windows open in front of
the main browser window and all is hunky dory.
When my client does the same, she claims that some of the
windows open in front of the main browser window but some open
behind the browser window and are obscured. She says she perceives
a "flash" if the new window opens behind the browser window. She is
using Firefox 2.0.9.17
Has anyone experienced this behaviour and figured out a
fix?

.oO(spiro_t)
>I have produced a page in DW3 for an artist where you
click on a thumbnail and
>it opens a new window with an enlargement of that image.
(I use the DW3
>javascript behaviour to do this).
>
> When I test it on my browsers the windows open in front
of the main browser
>window and all is hunky dory.
>
> When my client does the same, she claims that some of
the windows open in
>front of the main browser window but some open behind the
browser window and
>are obscured. She says she perceives a "flash" if the new
window opens behind
>the browser window. She is using Firefox 2.0.9.17
>
> Has anyone experienced this behaviour and figured out a
fix?
Usually the user/browser decides where new windows/tabs will
be opened.
But why open a new window at all? Why not use something like
Litebox?
Micha

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