Java SE (Java Platform, Standard Edition)

Finding a problem that appears to be limited to Java 6u10+. We have an applet which opens multiple JFrame windows, and in some cases, the user might click something in the applet that should trigger the browser to show a popup browser window with some web page. That part all works fine, and the browser popup shows in the front as it should in older java versions.

However, it appears that since 6u10, now that the applet process is separate from the browser, the popup window no longer can be brought to the front of the applets. It is being launched and brought to front with Javascript, but that only brings it in front of other browser windows, no longer in front of the applet. And the only thing I can find to resolve this is to minimize/iconify the applet windows, and that's not ideal to hide all windows.

Is there anyone else seeing this? Has anyone found any fix or work around for this (without minimizing all the applet windows)?
thanks