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How do I stop Google Calendar from switching tabs in my browser to the Calendar tab for notifications?

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Somebody asked this question on a Google forum (with no solutions). I will copy it here as it is explained very clearly:

I use Google Calendar in Firefox. Several weeks ago, a pop-up showed up out of no-where and asked if I wanted to have the browser switch to the Google Calendar tab whenever a calendar notification occurred. It sounded like a good idea, so I said yes. It works. But after living with it for a few days, I hate it. But I cannot find any setting for turning it off. Any ideas?

Somebody asked this question on a Google forum (with no solutions). I will copy it here as it is explained very clearly: I use Google Calendar in Firefox. Several weeks ago, a pop-up showed up out of no-where and asked if I wanted to have the browser switch to the Google Calendar tab whenever a calendar notification occurred. It sounded like a good idea, so I said yes. It works. But after living with it for a few days, I hate it. But I cannot find any setting for turning it off. Any ideas?

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Ok, this was answered on another forum. "If you go to calendar.google.com and click on the padlock in the address bar, it will open a dropdown with a list of website permissions at the bottom. Just uncheck the switch tab option and refresh your page."

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Hey , Did you try looking at the add-ons or extensions ? You might find the issue there. Or try going to settings and set "google.com" as the default search engine, doing this fixes the issue most of the time.

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Hi, Thanks for the reply. I didn't think of those things, but I disabled all extensions and restarted Firefox - no difference. Set search engine to Google - again no difference. Still have the tab switching. Any other ideas?

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Ok, this was answered on another forum. "If you go to calendar.google.com and click on the padlock in the address bar, it will open a dropdown with a list of website permissions at the bottom. Just uncheck the switch tab option and refresh your page."

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Note that you can see all permissions including "Switch to this Tab" in "Tools -> Page Info -> Permissions".

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Great, thanks.