IzzaBellbot

I'll have a chat with a friend going and then deselect that window to move around and then I hit enter again, thinking I'm talking in the window that I have open, I'll start talking in nearby chat (a channel I amost never want to talk in to be honest). Is there any way to make Second Life default to the currently open channel and not the nearby chat one? I'm on Firestorm. (If there's a way to do it in the regular SL viewer I'm all ears for that too).