168679 - open a link in new window without stealing the focus

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 56690

(MailNews Core :: Networking, enhancement)

Description

[mike lima]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.2a) Gecko/20020910
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.2a) Gecko/20020910

THIS IS A SUGESTION FOR AN ENHANCEMENT:

Ok, in the browser when you mid-click you open the link in a new window without
stealing focus. Why not to make it work on mail/news? I mean, for example, I
receive lots of mails each day I have to click on a link. But as each link is
opened delays to be shown, I would like to be able to click each link and
continue on mail/news window, to click on the link on the next mail, without
being kicked to the new window and have to return back to mail/news window to
click on the next link.

I think this will be great. OPEN THE LINK IN A NEW WINDOW WITHOUT STEALING
FOCUS, or IN BACKGROUND.

:-)

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.none. this is not a bug
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Comment 1

[Bill Mason]

*** Bug 168678 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 2

[Todd Cohn]

Confirming.  Changing platform to all/all.  This would be nice to have, clicking
on links inside mailnews has been annoying for quite some time.

Comment 3

[Jesse Ruderman]

Mike, did you mean "new tab" when you said "new window"?

Related:
bug 56690 Allow opening link in a new window behind current window
bug 180042 (Flamewar about what middle-clicking on a link in mail should do)