1129917 - Open bookmark in new tab does not respect preferences to not switch to it immediately

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 331666

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, defect)

Description

[Craig]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:37.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/37.0
Build ID: 20150127141405

Steps to reproduce:

1.  Go to Preferences > General

2.  Uncheck "When I open a link in a new tab, switch to it immediately"

3.  Enable Bookmarks Toolbar

4.  Right click on bookmark and select "Open in a New Tab"


Actual results:

New tab is opened, but my view is taken to it immediately.


Expected results:

New tab should be opened and my view should remain on the tab I was looking at prior to opening the new tab.

The expectation is that this new tab behavior would match the behavior of opening a link from a web page in a new tab.

Comment 1

[rupunkhan02]

Well I checked it from windows 8, fire fox nightly 39.0a1 (2015-03-19) Build ID : 20150319030202

and i didn't find this bug. 
Its not reproducible in windows.

Comment 2

[Craig]

Thanks for testing in Windows rupunkhan02.  I went and checked again on Ubuntu just in case it's magically working now.  It is not.

Retested with 38.0a2 (2015-03-19) developer edition on Ubuntu 14.04.  Bug still remains for me.

Comment 3

[Gingerbread Man]

1. In the address bar, paste the following, then press Enter:
about:config?filter=browser.tabs.loadBookmarksInBackground
2. To bypass the warning, press the big button labeled “I'll be careful, I promise!”.
3. In the search results, double-click “browser.tabs.loadBookmarksInBackground” to set its value to “true”.