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Sometimes (and I cannot find any pattern) when I open the help via the Help menu, the help window pops up and then gets pushed behind the main window. If I am opening the help, it is because I want to see it so I don't understand why the main window gets fronted and I have to minimize or move the main window or alt-tab to get to the help.
I've seen somewhat similar behavior on Windows with other dialogs. It seems to happen if in between the time the action was invoked and the dialog actually shows, a tooltip is shown, but I'm not sure that's the root cause. If it is, though, the new code for making actions run synchronously on the event thread may help.
*** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of 36094 ***
verified duplicate