Default has Tabs load in the background
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(Thunderbird :: Untriaged, enhancement)
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(Reporter: siffe, Unassigned)
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User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:124.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/124.0
Steps to reproduce:
Clicked a message to open it.
Actual results:
The message opened in a new background tab.
Expected results:
The message should have opened in a new foreground tab, as it always has in the past.
See https://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=3119859. mail.tabs.loadInBackground is set to true by default, but hasn't been working that way until now.
mail.tabs.loadInBackground is set to true by default
In version 102.15.1
mail.tabs.loadInBackground is set to 'True' or 'False'
Email double click open in new tab will have auto focus.
Testing Version beta 125.0b2
To have immediate focus on email which is opened in a new tab:
mail.tabs.loadInBackground' change setting to 'False'
In other words it's actually now working correctly - that 'true' setting now has email opening in background - no focus.
However, the default is set as 'True' is not desirable - it should be changed to 'False' so that emails open with focus.
Exactly. When 125 lands, there will be a million confused users unless the default is changed to false.
(In reply to Ed from comment #3)
Exactly. When 125 lands, there will be a million confused users unless the default is changed to false.
I agree, it's good to know this preference finally works correctly, but setting by default to open in background will cause much unnecessary confusion and irritation, it needs the default setting to be:
mail.tabs.loadInBackground set to False
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