Originally Posted by selena

I mean like if I am typing away doing something else, and a message is sent to me that the...focus?...of the cursor is taken away. If I have icq running, but minimized, and I am typing this message, an incoming message will cause my cursor to freeze and I will have to go open the message to make it stop.

If I have icq running and open, it does not do that.

I cannot tell you how many times a day I get stopped in place because of an incoming message.