middleclicking a bookmark should open the tab in the background
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(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, defect)
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(Reporter: soapboxcicero+mozbugs, Unassigned)
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User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:109.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/119.0
Steps to reproduce:
middle click a bookmark from the bookmark bar or a folder in the bookmark bar
Actual results:
the page opens but the tab is immediately switched to instead of opening in the background
Expected results:
the new tab opens in the background like if I had middle clicked a regular link
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Comment 1•2 years ago
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The Bugbug bot thinks this bug should belong to the 'Firefox::Bookmarks & History' component, and is moving the bug to that component. Please correct in case you think the bot is wrong.
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Comment 2•2 years ago
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As per this page, you can use shift-middle click to open the tab in the background:
https://support.mozilla.org/kb/mouse-shortcuts-perform-common-tasks#w_bookmarks-history-pages
At the moment, I don't think we would change the default, but we might do that sometime in future as part of a wider improvement of shortcuts/where items open.
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Comment 3•2 years ago
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If you always want to open bookmarks in background tabs instead, you could set to true browser.tabs.loadBookmarksInTabs and browser.tabs.loadBookmarksInBackground in about:config
This will affect any click, not just middle click.
I've tried both and will stick with the workaround Marco provided. It's not ideal but in general I want bookmarks to open the background so it's wrong less of the time.
Ultimately this was a request for uniformity. If I'm in a tab and click a link, it opens in the current tab. If I'm in a tab and middle click a link, it opens a new tab in the background. If I click a bookmark [before making the above changes] it opens in the current tab. If I middle click a bookmark it opens in a new tab and immediately switches to that tab. If that were also the behavior for clicking a link it would make some sense but doing basically the same thing but slightly different is extremely vexing.
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