[🐛 Bug]: Chrome steals focus when started on Mac (but not on Windows)

[kool79]

Description

I just switched to Mac from Windows.
When I run tests by using Chrome on my win machine (local execution), I had a smooth behaviour: I can start tests in IDE, test launches browser for every test, while I can continue my work on another monitor of the same PC (write messages in slack etc)
When I switched to Mac, I see that browser steals focus when started. So I cannot do my work in parallel with tests execution

P.S> I need this to work in headed mode, because I use a local execution just for debugging purpose

I use the Chrome only, so I did not tested this with other browsers.

MacOS: Sequoia 15.3.2

Reproducible Code

no code. Just create a local chromedriver

[selenium-ci]

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[github-actions]

⚠️ You reported using Selenium version 4.29.0, but the latest release is 4.31.

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[selenium-ci]

Hi, @kool79.
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[cgoldberg]

no code. Just create a local chromedriver

Please supply the code you are using to launch Chrome and fill out the issue template so someone can triage this.