1915820 - history doesn't respect browser.tabs.loadInBackground

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, defect)

Description

[jaborandi]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/125.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce:

1. ensure that you have browser.tabs.loadInBackground set to true

2. open history with ctrl+h or chrome://browser/content/places/historySidebar.xhtml

3. ctrl+click any item

Actual results:

firefox switches to the newly opened tab

Expected results:

the new tab must open in the background, you should remain in the tab active before the click

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

[Alice0775 White]

Set browser.tabs.loadBookmarksInBackground to true instead of browser.tabs.loadInBackground

Comment 3

[Ardelean Oana, Desktop Test Engineering [:oardelean]]

Hello!
Could you please re-test using the steps from Comment 2 and confirm if the issue is still reproducible with browser.tabs.loadBookmarksInBackground set to true?
Thank you.

Comment 4

[jaborandi]

yes, i confirm that setting browser.tabs.loadBookmarksInBackground to true works

sorry for the late reaction - i somehow missed that comment
thank you

Comment 5

[jaborandi]

i mean, it is not reproducible after settings browser.tabs.loadBookmarksInBackground to true

i.e. settings browser.tabs.loadBookmarksInBackground to true solves the issue, both for history open in sidebar and in full window

Comment 7

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

The severity field is not set for this bug.
:mak, could you have a look please?

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Comment 8

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

yeah, the naming of the pref is not great, but we can't easily change it. It actually refers to both bookmarks and history views.