1786273 - Firefox switches to the newly opened tab immediately

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 423789

(Firefox :: Tabbed Browser, defect)

Description

[dorukgencel]

Attachment: demo.mp4

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:103.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/103.0

Steps to reproduce:

1- Open Firefox
2- Uncheck the option ''When you open a link, image or media in a new tab, switch to it immediately''
3- Add a bookmark to your bookmark toolbar
4- either [middle-mouse-button click] OR [right click > open in new tab] to that bookmark you added
5- bookmark opens in a new tab, but Firefox switches to it immediately, which is not desired.

You could also have the same problem if you produce the following steps, too.

1- Open Firefox
2- Uncheck the option ''When you open a link, image or media in a new tab, switch to it immediately''
3- Open a new tab, and write anything into the address-bar, do not press enter
4- [middle-mouse-button click] onto one of the results in the drop-down
5- New tab opens with the desired result, but Firefox switches to it immediately.

Actual results:

A new tab opens, but Firefox switches to it immediately.

Expected results:

A new tab should open, but Firefox shouldn't switch to it immediately.

Comment 1

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

The Bugbug bot thinks this bug should belong to the 'Firefox::Tabbed Browser' component, and is moving the bug to that component. Please correct in case you think the bot is wrong.

Comment 2

[dorukgencel]

I have enabled 'browser.tabs.loadBookmarksInBackground' as it was suggested in reddit, which solved my issue

(https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/x07fsn/comment/im6x95k/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3)