From 60fb97d59e8fc55cdb6fa3f5dac0d0739ca5fb0e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Luke Parker <10430890+Hona@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 2026 13:54:22 +1000
Subject: [PATCH] fix(desktop): preserve keyboard focus during browser
 navigation (#48593)

---
 packages/desktop/src/main/browser-chromium.ts | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/packages/desktop/src/main/browser-chromium.ts b/packages/desktop/src/main/browser-chromium.ts
index f01121728f1..37b429e976e 100644
--- a/packages/desktop/src/main/browser-chromium.ts
+++ b/packages/desktop/src/main/browser-chromium.ts
@@ -53,6 +53,8 @@ export function createBrowserPage(
       webviewTag: false,
       devTools: false,
       backgroundThrottling: false,
+      // Agent navigation, including in hidden tabs, must not take the user's keyboard focus.
+      focusOnNavigation: false,
     },
   })
   const contents = view.webContents
@@ -157,6 +159,8 @@ export function createBrowserPage(
               webSecurity: true,
               webviewTag: false,
               devTools: false,
+              // Electron applies these preferences before the popup is adopted by our view.
+              focusOnNavigation: false,
               partition: options.partition,
             },
           },