Comment 32 for bug 735205

So you're not experiencing that? Try running chromium and a terminal on the same workspace, execute `chromium-browser http://google.com/` in the terminal, does Chromium actually get focus? If all is well, you will be able to just type in the google search bar.

OK... And now for something completely different... These problems are only visible when it's unity that's launching the app, as you mentioned. If I run chromium and firefox outside of unity, firefox gets urgent regardless of workspaces, chromium rises and gets focus.

The difference in metacity debug log between the two is:
> Window manager warning: 0x4200044 (Nowa karta) appears to be one of the offending windows with a timestamp of
> 1315914503. Working around...

We're back to unity being at fault, IMO.