1842873 - Add `inBackground`/`forceForeground` to `OPEN_URL` special message action

Status: NEW

(Firefox :: Messaging System, enhancement, P2)

Description

[Nick Alexander :nalexander [he/him]]

I was surprised to discover that the OPEN_URL special message action doesn't have clear ways to control focus. In my use case (Bug 1805514) I always want to focus the opened tab.

This ticket tracks exposing inBackground (and maybe forceForeground) from openInWindow.

Comment 1

[Punam Dahiya [:pdahiya]]

NI @nalexander to triage and update priority if this enhancement is needed windows notifications in Fx117 . Thanks!

Comment 2

[Nick Alexander :nalexander [he/him]]

(In reply to Punam Dahiya [:pdahiya] from comment #1)

NI @nalexander to triage and update priority if this enhancement is needed windows notifications in Fx117 . Thanks!

No, not needed for Fx117. But I'd appreciate if the Messaging team could deliver the additional functionality; it seems likely that we have a subpar experience right now. Thanks!

Comment 3

[Shane Hughes [:aminomancer]]

We've been using where: "tabshifted", so we might want to look at existing uses of tab/tabshifted to see if any of them want to always open in foreground/background (irrespective of user settings, which invert the behavior of tab/tabshifted)