Hello!

Back in '96, when I first ventured into the web, I could load a new window in my browser, then click back to the one I was reading previously, and the new window would load in the background, without disturbing me.

Fastforward: Eight years later. Now (using IE), I tell a page to load, put it in the background to ponder the previous page, and my browser has an annoying habit of bringing the loading page to the foreground three or four times before it's finished loading, completely disrupting my attempts to concentrate on the first page. This is extremely annoying. Is there a way to set it so loading pages stay in the background until I'm good and ready for them, or am I doomed to have my browser windows compete for my attention?

In the words of the immortal Charlie Brown: *Aaaaaugh*!