Full-Screen Toggle Mode Focus Issues

Before submitting your bug report

• I believe this is a bug. I'll try to join the Continue Discord for questions
• I'm not able to find an open issue that reports the same bug
• I've seen the troubleshooting guide on the Continue Docs

Relevant environment info

**OS:** Windows_NT x64 10.0.19045  
**Continue version:**  0.8.66
**IDE version:** Visual Studio Code   1.96.2 (user setup)  
**Model:** Ollama Qwen 2.5 local 32b coder, Deepseeker v3 (OpenRouter)

Description

Description:

When using Continue.dev in full-screen mode and attempting to handle it as a side menu, an issue arises where follow-up questions stop processing upon losing focus. Additionally, every time focus is shifted away from the extension, a new chat window is automatically opened (actually it jumps to beginning, but had case of new chat window yesterday, today jumping seen, see clip below in my comment). This behavior persists across different models, including Ollama Qwen 2.5 local 32b coder and Deepseeker v3 from OpenRouter, indicating that this might be an extension-specific issue rather than a model-related one.

The issue seems to stem from how focus and window management are handled within the extension when operating in a new window.

To reproduce

Steps to reproduce the problem:

1. Open Continue.dev in full-screen mode in VS Code.
2. Use the side menu-like functionality while interacting with the extension.
3. Ask a follow-up question.
4. Switch focus to the main VS Code window.
5. Observe the behavior when returning to Continue.dev.

Expected Behavior:

• Follow-up questions continue processing even after losing focus.
• No new chat window is opened when focus is lost.

Actual Behavior:

• The follow-up question stops processing as soon as the focus shifts away from the Continue.dev window.
• A new chat window opens automatically when focus is lost.

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