Thanks for your bug report.
With the changes that the Favorites dialog had there is a function that stopped working. Before if we were connected to a network and when we opened the Favorites dialog and selected the channel (eg #mIRC) and clicked on Join, mIRC put that channel as the active window when this channel was called and now mIRC in beta version 7.67.2836 does not do anything.
I have not been able to reproduce this so far. If I am in the Favorites dialog, I select a channel, click the Join button, and the channel is joined and appears as the active window. Are you sure you do not have another setting or script that is minimizing the channel window?
In the Favorites menu on the menu bar, sorting does not work the same as in the Favorites dialog.
I have just checked the sorting in the Favorites menu and compared it to the Favorites dialog and they are the same. Can you please check this again and compare them line by line?
Or at least in the menu bar the channels are not grayed out.
Menus do not work in the same way as listboxes. If I grayed out the items in the menu, they would no longer be accessible. The menu continues to show the channels and allows them to be joined, in the same way that the dialog allows all channels to be joined, whether they are grayed out or not. This is a limitation of menus I'm afraid.
Thanks for your feedback.