Safari Tabbed Browsing Question

I just got a new iMac yesterday, and this is my first experience with the Safari browser. I was using Firefox on my PC, so I'm used to tabbed browsing, but there's one problem (just an annoyance, really) that I haven't figured out yet - is there a way to keep the selected tab on top? Safari jumps to a different tab if any of the content changes on that page. If I've got several sites open (autosurf sites especially), Safari is constantly switching tabs on its own. Is there any way to keep it from doing that? Or would I be better off just installing FireFox? Thanks for the info.

Can you give an example of sites that do this? I've been using Safari on a number of sites that update content automatically and have yet to see Safari switch tabs on me without expressly telling it to do so (aside from when clicking links in Mail, which opens a NEW tab and selects it, but that's still a user-driven event.)

The problem is specifically with autosurf sites that rotate to a new site every 15 or 20 seconds. As soon as the new site is loaded the browser switches to that tab. I want to be able to run those sites in the background, so it's annoying when the tabs keep switching. I just downloaded FireFox for Mac and it works much better for me, so I'm probably just going to use that. Are there any particular features in Safari that I might be missing out on by using FireFox? I like Safari so far but it looks like FireFox might be a better option for me.

Preferences>Tabs, Uncheck, Select new tabs as they are created.

IronMac said:

Preferences>Tabs, Uncheck, Select new tabs as they are created.

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That should work.

you could just download firefox for mac...

I'm not sure why you would suggest getting Firefox when the issue can be solved in Safari.

That unchecking of the box: select new tabs as they are created, can be annoying until you sort it out in Prefs. I know it took me a few months until I got sick enough of the new tab coming to the forefront, to dig around to see if I could do something about it. I was pleased to find there is a choice....

I find it beneficial to have a 2nd browser installed, and it has come in handy more than once....

i wish there was a "force new window to open in a tab" option.