Comment 10 for bug 546969

Now I've discovered that this same problem occurs with Chrome as my default browser. And it happens the same from other source applications such as terminal or nautilus. So it is not an issue with any of these apps in particular, which makes you think it's a GNOME problem. But then here's a post where someone claims to have the same issue in Kubuntu 10.04:
http://ubuntu-virginia.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=9265170

My entire workflow pretty much consists of getting notification emails from some web app and clicking a link to go to said web app to continue working. This new behavior is thus pretty maddening, and I would like to help fix it however I can, but I don't know which direction to keep investigating at this point... where does the focus-or-not decision even get made??